What are
the three major threats to the tiger population? why steps were taken by the government to preserve tigers in India?
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Answer:
(i) Poaching for trade
(ii) Shrinking habitat
(iii) Depletion of prey base species
(iv) Growing human population
(v) The trade of tiger skins and the use of their bones in transitional medicines, especially in the Asian countries left the tiger population on the verge of extinction.
Efforts made by the government to protect them :
(i) Project Tiger, one of the well-publicised wildlife campaigns in the world, was launched in 1973.
(ii) There are 42 tiger reserves in India covering an area of 37,761 sq km.
(iii) Tiger conservation had been viewed not only as an effort to save an endangered species, but with equal importance as a means of preserving bio types of sizeable magnitude.
(iv) Some of the tiger reserves of India are Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, Sunderbans National Park in West Bengal etc.
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