Tiger reserve preserved
4 March 2010
Categories: Big Cats Campaign News, Homepage News
Indian NGOs¹ in the Born Free-supported Satpuda Landscape Tiger Programme (SLTP) network have successfully fought off plans for coal mines to be established in ecologically sensitive areas. Born Free established the Programme in 2004 to help save the tiger in central India’s vast forests. Proposals threatened to destroy 2,500 hectares of forest surrounding the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra. Tigers are wide-ranging animals, reliant on extensive forest habitat, and frequently roaming into ‘buffer zones’. These areas outside core protected habitat act as critical habitat ‘corridors’ to other protected areas.
With support from the Maharastra State Forestry Department and the central National Tiger Conservation Authority, the success of the SLTP partners’ lobbying efforts underlines the power of coordinated and sustained campaigns.
Born Free warmly congratulates our government and NGO colleagues for this hard-fought victory for tigers.
Photo (c)www.tigersintheforest.co.uk
¹Non-Governmental Organisations
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