India’s 14 Tiger Reserves Have Received Accreditation of the CATS
On the occasion of World Tiger Day, 2021, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has announced to grant Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS) accreditation to 14 out of 51 tiger reserves in India.
- The theme of this year’s International Tiger Day is “Their Survival is in our hands”.
- CA|TS is a world-class approved conservation tool. It sets minimum standards for the management of tigers and encourages the evaluation of these standards in relevant protected areas.
- It was started in the year 2013. It has been implemented in 125 places across the world including 94 in India.
Status of tigers and measures taken for their conservation:
- India had achieved the target of doubling the tiger population four years back as per the St. Petersburg Declaration on Tiger Conservation in 2010.
- Project Tiger has been launched to provide central assistance to the respective states for the conservation of tigers in designated tiger reserves in India.
- The IUCN status of tigers in India is “Endangered”.
- Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of tigers in the country. It is followed by Karnataka and Uttarakhand.
There are 14 CA|TS accredited reserves:
Manas, Kaziranga, and Orang in Assam; Satpura, Kanha and Panna in Madhya Pradesh; Pench in Maharashtra; Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar; Dudhwa in Uttar Pradesh; Sunderbans in West Bengal; Parambikulam in Kerala; Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka; and Mudumalai and Anamalai Tiger Reserves in Tamil Nadu.
Source – The Hindu
