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Tigers outside reserves
April 23 , 2025
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- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is learnt to be finalising the contours of the “tigers outside tiger reserves” project.
- It aims to reducing human-animal conflict and stepping up monitoring outside tiger reserves to tackle poaching would be the two key focus areas
- Nearly 30 per cent of the country’s estimated 3,682 tigers being reported outside notified reserves.
- The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will implement the project.
- NTCA has identified 80 forest divisions across 10 states where it will first be rolled out.
- 378 people were killed due to conflict with tigers between 2020 and 2024, including 110 in 2022 alone.
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