Save Tigers

31/12/2021

Didn't accomplish much this year,
Lost a lot, g*ined a few.
But ending this year on a good note.
New PR 200kgs hexbar lift.

09/08/2016

https://youtu.be/E-ulVwCcQSs

10 Very Interesting Facts about Tigers 10. The Grand Camouflage 9. Fierce and Fiery! 8. "Trespassers will be prosecuted" 7. Eat and Prey! -- Ladies and Kids ...

16/07/2016

https://youtu.be/wk0FxijzkT4

The international efforts to protect the world's wild Tiger populations appear to be paying off. John Iadarola (ThinkTank) discusses how this story proves go...

29/04/2015

Project Tiger

Logo of National Tiger Conservation Authority
Project Tiger is a Tiger conservation programme launched in 1973 by the Government of India under its then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The project aims at ensuring a viable population of Bengal tigers in their natural habitats and also to protect them from extinction, and preserving areas of biological importance as a natural heritage forever represented as close as possible the diversity of ecosystems across the tiger's distribution in the country. The project's task force visualized these tiger reserves as breeding nuclei, from which surplus animals would migrate to adjacent forests. Funds and commitment were mastered to support the intensive program of habitat protection and rehabilitation under the project.[1] The government has set up a Tiger Protection Force to combat poachers and funded relocation of villagers to minimize human-tiger conflicts.

During the tiger census of 2006, a new methodology was used extrapolating site-specific densities of tigers, their co-predators and prey derived from camera trap and sign surveys using GIS. Based on the result of these surveys, the total tiger population has been estimated at 1,411 individuals ranging from 1,165 to 1,657 adult and sub-adult tigers of more than 1.5 years of age.[2] Owing to the project, the number of tigers has improved to 2226 as per the latest census report released on January 20, 2015.[3]

Objectives

Bengal tiger
Project Tiger was identified to:

Limit factors that leads to reduction of tiger habitats and to mitigate them by suitable management. The damages done to the habitat were to be rectified so as to facilitate the recovery of the ecosystem to the maximum possible extent.
To ensure a viable population of tigers for economic, scientific, cultural,aesthetic and ecological values.
For site specific eco development to reduce the dependency of local people on tiger reserve resources.
About

Tiger hunt by Rufus Isaacs, former Viceroy of British India
The Indian tiger population at the turn of the 20th century was estimated at 20,000 to 40,000 individuals. The first country-wide tiger census conducted in 1972 estimated the population to comprise a little more than 1,800 individuals, an alarming reduction in tiger population.[1]

In 1973, the project was launched in the Palamau Tiger Reserve.

Management
Project Tiger is administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority. The overall administration of the project is monitored by a steering committee headed by a director. A field director is appointed for each reserve, who is assisted by a group of field and technical personnel.

The habitats covered under Project tiger are:

1.Sivalik-terai conservation unit

2.North East conservation unit

3.Sunderbans conservation unit

4.Western ghats conservation unit

5.Eastern ghats conservation unit

6.Central India conservation unit

The various tiger reserves were created in the country based on 'core-buffer' strategy:

1.Core area: The core areas are freed of all human activities.It has the legal status of a national park or wildlife sanctuary.It is kept free of biotic disturbances and forestry operations like collection of minor forest produce,grazing,and other human disturbances are not allowed within. 2.Buffer areas:The buffer areas are subjected to 'conservation-oriented land use.'It comprises of forest and non-forest land.It is a multi-purpose use area with twin objectives of providing habitat supplement to spillover population of wild animals from core conservation unit and to provide site specific co-developmental inputs to surrounding villages for relieving their impact on core area. For each tiger reserve, management plans were drawn up based on the following principles:

Elimination of all forms of human exploitation and biotic disturbance from the core area and rationalization of activities in the buffer zone
Restricting the habitat management only to repair the damages done to the ecosys

05/04/2015

yo anu......doing quite a worka.....

09/03/2015

Facts about tigers

Tigers are the largest members of the cat family and are renowned for their power and strength.
The tiger is capable of killing animals over twice its size; it is one of nature’s most feared predators.
Like its ancestor, the sabre-tooth cat, the tiger relies heavily on its powerful teeth for survival. If it loses its canines (tearing teeth) through injury or old age, it can no longer kill and is likely to starve to death.
Tigers live alone and aggressively scent-mark large territories (up to 100sq km in size) to keep their rivals away.
They are powerful nocturnal hunters that travel many miles to find buffalo, deer, wild pigs, and other large mammals. A Bengal tiger can eat 21kg of meat in a night and can kill the equivalent of 30 buffaloes a year.
The roar of a Bengal tiger can carry for over 2km at night.
Although tigers are powerful and fast over short distances, the Bengal tiger cannot outrun fleet footed prey such as deer. Instead it uses stealth to catch its victims; attacking from the side or the rear.
Tigers use their distinctive coats as camouflage (no two have exactly the same stripes).
If the kill is large, the tiger may drag the remains to a thicket and loosely bury it with leaves, then return to it later.
As well as game animals, it preys on wild boar, monkeys, lizards and occasionally porcupines.
Females give birth to litters of two to six cubs, which they raise with little or no help from the male. Cubs cannot hunt until they are 18 months old and remain with their mothers for two to three years, when they disperse to find their own territory.
Like domestic cats, all tigers can purr. Unlike their tame relatives, however, which can purr as they breathe both in and out, tigers purr only as they breathe out.
Unlike other cats, tigers are good swimmers and often cool off in lakes and streams during the heat of the day.
Although tigers belong in the wild they are still used by travelling circuses in the UK.

26/12/2014

sab tigers baach g*i kya....

22/12/2014

Cute tiger cubs....

10/07/2014

17. Tigers prefer to hunt large prey by ambush. If you
look at a tiger, it is less likely to attack, as it has lost the
element of surprise. In some locations in India, people
traditionally wear a mask on the back of their head while
walking through forests to prevent tigers from pouncing
from behind.
18. Tigers do not normally view humans as prey, but will
attack if threatened. Most cases of purposeful human
predation are due to lack of a tiger’s normal prey species
due to habitat loss.
19. A small number of tigers develop a taste for human
flesh and become man-eaters. One tigress defended her
cubs ag*inst unwitting humans and subsequently began
preying on humans almost exclusively. She is thought to
be responsible for the deaths of 430 people.
20. Due to their instinctive ambush hunting, even man-
eating tigers do not directly enter human settlements, but
stay near the outskirts and attack solitary people. They
tend to hunt at night when humans are less able to see
them sneak up.

30/05/2014

http://endangered-tiger.blogspot.in/2010/09/five-year-race-to-save-indias-vanishing.html

21/05/2014

11. Just like housecats, the markings on a tiger’s fur are
also found on their skin, so even a shaved tiger would
still show its stripes.
12. Unlike almost all other big cats, tigers are adept
swimmers. They enjoy bathing and often play in the
water when young. As adults, they often swim several
kilometers to hunt or to cross rivers, and at least one has
been recorded to have swum almost 30km in a day.
13. Tigers are the largest of all cats, but also have the
most variability in size. The largest subspecies, the
Siberian tiger, grows to over 3.5m long with a mass of
over 300k. The smallest subspecies, the Sumatran tiger,
is only around 2m long and 100kg when fully-grown.
14. Tigresses are fertile for a period of only four or five
days throughout the entire year. During this time, they
mate frequently. They are pregnant for a little over three
months, and usually give birth to two or three cubs.
15. Tigers are completely blind for the first week of their
life. About half do not survive to adulthood.

10/05/2014

FACTS ABOUT TIGERS
6. Male tigers have larger territories than females, so
that the areas overlap and the tigers can mate. Adult
female territories generally never overlap with those of
other adult females, and adult male territories do not
overlap with those of other adult males.
7. Tigers do not normally roar at other animals, but
instead they roar to communicate with far-off tigers. A
tiger about to attack will therefore not roar, but might hiss
and fuff instead.
8. When several tigers are present at a kill, the males
will often wait for females and cubs to eat first, unlike
lions, which do the opposite. Tigers rarely argue or fight
over a kill and simply wait turns.
9. The stripes on each tiger are unique, like human
fingerprints.
10. The markings on a tiger’s forehead closely resemble
the Chinese character for king, giving tigers a cultural
status as a regal animal.