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Tiger conservation in Tamilnadu 2024
August 3 , 2024
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- The Nilgiris landscape has the largest tiger population in the world.
- The contiguous forests spreads between Kerala and Tamil Nadu in Periyar – Meghamalai cluster and Anamalai – Parambikulam complex.
- 306 tigers were recorded in Tamil Nadu in the nation-wide census by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for 2022.
- This number was an increase from the 264 big cats found in the 2018 survey.
- There has been a four-fold increase in the tiger numbers here over the past two decades.
- The conservation of tigers in India can be divided into two phases.
- The first phase was starting in the 1970s.
- It involved the enactment of the Wildlife Protection Act and the establishment of protected areas.
- The second phase began in 2005-2006.
- During this period, the government adopting a landscape-level approach and implementing strict monitoring for tiger conservation.
- In 2018, the tiger population was estimated at 981 and in 2022, 824 unique tigers were recorded.
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