BHUBANESWAR:
It’s a bad news for Odisha that its tiger population decreased from 32 in the
year of 2010 to 28 in 2014 at the time when India takes credit for 30 per cent
increase in the population of the big cats.
Environment
Minister Prakash Javadekar in Delhi said that India has 2,226 tigers in its forest
reserves in 2014 against 1,706 tigers in 2010. With this, India has around 70
per cent of the world’s around 3,000 tigers, he added.
Though
the reason of the fall in tiger population is yet to be confirmed by the State
Government, environmentalists said that poor management in habitats, especially
in Maoist-affected areas might be the reason behind the decline in the tiger
population.
Notably,
the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had severely criticised the
implementation of Project Tiger scheme saying the tiger population in Odisha
declined drastically due to inadequate protection measures and deficiency in
project management.
The
CAG in its report had pointed out that tiger population in Odisha fell from 192
in 2004 to 32 in 2010, and both Similipal Tiger Reserve (TR) and Satkosia TR
were ranked as ‘Poor’ in the assessment report of the Union Ministry of
Environment and Forests (MoEF).
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