Six countries, including Russia and China, have sought India’s help to replicate Project Tiger, one of the most successful conservation programmes running in the country to protect the big cats from extinction.
During the first stock-taking conference held in the Capital in mid-May to review implementation of the Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP), tiger range countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Russia, Vietnam, Myanmar and China approached India to help them in conserving tigers.
Leaving Nepal, none of the countries has done any tiger census and has no idea about the number of tigers present in the wild.
“India has been running one of the most successful tiger conservation programmes since 1973 and most of the tiger range countries want us to help them replicate it there,” said Rajesh Gopal, member secretary, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
He said India would support future programme of action and conservation of tigers in other countries.
Published 27 May 2012, 19:10 IST