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Tribal girls using bamboo saplings in a nursery at Mukhali near Silent Valley Tribal women selling minor forest produce Leaf litter collection by women folk Fig. 2.1 Act was implemented in 1972, with various...

Tribal girls using bamboo saplings in a nursery at Mukhali near Silent Valley Tribal women selling minor forest produce Leaf litter collection by women folk Fig. 2.1 Act was implemented in 1972, with various Project Tiger provisions for protecting habitats. An all- Tiger is one of the key wildlife species in India list of protected species was also the faunal web. In 1973, the authorities published. The thrust of the programme was realised that the tiger population had towards protecting the remaining population dwindled to 1,827 from an estimated of certain endangered species by banning 55,000 at the turn of the century. The major hunting, giving legal protection to their threats to tiger population are numerous, habitats, and restricting trade in wildlife. such as poaching for trade, shrinking Subsequently, central and many state habitat, depletion of prey base species, governments established national parks and growing human population, etc. The trade wildlife sanctuaries about which you have of tiger skins and the use of their bones in already studied. The central government also traditional medicines, especially in the announced several projects for protecting Asian countries left the tiger population on specific animals, which were gravely the verge of extinction. Since India and threatened, including the tiger, the one- Nepal provide habitat to about two-thirds horned rhinoceros, the Kashmir stag or of the surviving tiger population in the hangul, three types of crocodiles – fresh world, these two nations became prime water crocodile, saltwater crocodile and the targets for poaching and illegal trading. Gharial, the Asiatic lion, and others. Most “Project Tiger ”, one of the well- recently, the Indian elephant, black buck publicised wildlife campaigns in the world, (chinkara), the great Indian bustard was launched in 1973. Tiger conservation (godawan) and the snow leopard, etc. have has been viewed not only as an effort to been given full or partial legal protection save an endangered species, but with against hunting and trade throughout India. 14 CONTEMPORARY INDIA – II Reprint 2024-25