For a multi-million dollar cricket tournament in jeopardy - A whole nation stood by
Charming young politician visits a city - A whole police force stood by
A national superstar in trouble - A whole tabloid stood by
The last trail of our national animal is diminishing - There are hardly a few hands raised to count.......
Its very disturbing every time I see an advert on the TV which keeps reminding that we are left with a few thousand tigers. It hurts me even more to say that the measure taken by our nation to increase or conserve tiger counts has been very minimal and unnoticeable. There are a very few efforts like the Project Tiger and some conservation reserves that have been established for tiger welfare which have reached the saturation levels in their own cycle.
Yes a few things like an advertisement, corporate campaigns, chats, celebrity endowments and blogs have started making their efforts towards this fight, but how effective you think it can be? To an extent it can create awareness and join up people for a single cause and keep the struggle live. The problem lies in the root level where our tigers reside. If there is only one way to increase our tiger counts it has to be from the root level and that too with the best conservation practices, a strong govt/federal bill and class of art technology
We as a country, lack on the technology to track, monitor, guard and protect our tigers.Where are sophisticated satellite navigated tracking mechanisms and where are our very own 40 - 50 old guards with a double barrel guns & latti.
Things have changed over the past few decades. There must be more funds allocated to make more research on conservation and guarding techniques. New, young and enthusiastic researches must be given more encouragements in terms of support and financial funding. Tiger’s conservation must be taken up as election agenda by the political parties in their manifesto and also compulsory work on them if elected.
Well that’s it for now…Keep me posted on your views
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