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| PM thanks NDTV for tiger campaign |
| After receiving nearly five lakh signatures on Save the Tiger Campaign from all over the country, the petitions were handed over to Prime Minister
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| INDIA
, 17-March-2008
10:18:38 AM |
| After receiving nearly five lakh signatures on Save the Tiger Campaign from all over the country, the petitions were handed over to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.
''The government is with you. We are committed; we will do a lot more to save the tiger. Thank you for creating awareness through the tiger campaign,'' said the Prime Minister.
The response to NDTV's Save the Tiger Campaign, supported by Sanctuary Asia and Kids for Tiger, has been overwhelming. Even a week after the rallies held across the country, a remarkable 4,97,944 people came forward to sign the petition.
It has been little over a month since the government came out with the latest tiger census. According to the government's latest census, there are only 1411 tiger left in the wild, 50 per cent down from 3642 in 2001-02.
The figure was an acknowledgment of the fact that tigers in India are in serious danger. Following this, NDTV carried out a campaign to raise awareness and make people put pressure on the government to be more vigilant.
Tiger numbers
Uttarakhand - 178
Karnataka - 290
In the northeast (Assam) - 70
Rajasthan - 32
Madhya Pradesh (Kanha, Bandhavgarh and other national parks) - 300
Most promising tiger growth is in the Terrai region of the Himalayas, which includes Corbett, Rajaji National Park, Dudhwa and the Valmiki tiger reserve in Bihar.
It may sound magnificent, but for how long? All attempts, even by the Prime Minister, seem to be failing.
According to the government, the record looks so bad because the counting method used last time was not very accurate.
This time, they have used the camera trap method, which identifies tigers by its stripes and then adds up.
The methodology will be debated hotly in the days ahead but the key question is whether the government has been successful in conserving the tiger? On that, however, the government is far from confident.
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