Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a three-day mega event from April 9 in Mysuru to mark the completion of 50 years of ‘Project Tiger’ and showcase India’s tiger conservation success globally. India had launched Project Tiger on April 1, 1973 in a bid to promote tiger conservation. The tiger reserves are repositories for biodiversity conservation in the country. They ensure regional water security and carbon sequestration and, thereby, contribute in accomplishing India’s climate change mitigation targets. Notably, nations with tiger populations — India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam — in 2010 committed to doubling their big cat population by 2022. India reached its target in 2018, four years ahead of the schedule.
50 years of Project Tiger
