Pre-Summit Meeting of the Tiger Range Countries
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GS III: Environment and Conservation

What is discussed under Pre-Summit Meeting of the Tiger Range Countries?

1. Key highlights of the pre-summit
2. Tiger reserves in India
3. Importance of tiger conservation
4. Conservation status of tiger

Why in News?

• • Pre-summit meeting of tiger range countries held in New Delhi.
  • The 4th Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation was held in January 2022.

Key Highlights of the Pre-summit

• • The pre-summit conference of 14 tiger range countries (TRCs) is conducted in New Delhi as a precursor to the Tiger Range Countries Summit, which will be placed in Vladivostok, Russia on September 5, 2022.
  • Previous summit was conducted in St. Petersberg in 2010. 
  • Meeting aimed to finalise the declaration on tiger conservation to be adopted at the Summit.
  • Delegates from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand, Viet Nam, and Kazakhstan attended the summit, except China and Indonesia.

Tiger Reserves in India

• • India has 52 tiger reserves covering approximately 75,000 Sq Km area across 18 states, accounting for around 70% of the world’s wild tiger population.
  • 17 tiger reserves in the country have received international CA|TS accreditation, and two have received the International Tx2 (Tigers times two) award.

    

     

  • India has been at the forefront of implementing a Tiger Task Force-approved science-based, peer-reviewed tiger monitoring approach.
  • So far, four cycles of national estimating have occurred, and the fifth cycle of All India Tiger Estimation is now ongoing.
  • India has bilateral agreements and Memorandums of Understanding with various Tiger Range Countries, and it is collaborating closely with Cambodia to provide technical help in the return of wild tigers.
  • As a founding member of the Global Tiger Forum, India aspires to expand relationships and collaboration with all Tiger Range Countries in order to safeguard the future of wild tigers in India and globally.

Project Tiger

• • Project Tiger is the first conservation programme by the Government of India.
  • India is committed to incorporating all potential tiger habitats within the country into the Tiger Reserve Network and support funding through the Centrally Sponsored Scheme – Project Tiger.
  • India has raised its financing for Project Tiger throughout the years attempting to make conservation more inclusive by incorporating local communities who live near tiger reserves.

Importance of Tiger Conservation

• • Tigers are important in regulating ecological processes as tigers are one of the top predators in the ecosystem.
  • Maintaining a diet chain as they keep the population of wild ungulates.
  • They are a cultural icon for millions.
  • Tigers play a significant role in mitigating climate change as tiger landscapes store more carbon than any other forest in any region.

Conservation Status of Tiger

• • Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill 2021: Schedule 1.
  • Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): On the verge of extinction.
  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): Appendix 1.

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