Deforestation,
poaching, revenge hunting, Chinese medications, and livestock pressures are
some of the evil reasons due to which population of our royal big cats is
decreasing at an alarming rate. We all love the tigers, but exactly what should
we do to save their existence?
Thankfully,
there are numerous organizations overwhelmed about the threatening conditions
of tigers’ existence and they are implementing huge efforts on their projects
to save this endangered species. Some of these organizations are Indian Forest
Services, Wildlife Institute of India and National Tiger Conservation Authority
taking strict measures to safeguard tigers. They are implementing various
effective projects like Travel Operators for Tigers. Most of us strongly
believe that Eco-Friendly Tourism can play a vital role to safeguard the
tigers.
How Tourism can do this?
According
to Julian Matthews (Founder and Chairman of Travel Operators for Tigers),
tourism gives amazing protection to the tigers by passive monitoring and
exploring them.
This
is true there is a substantial impact on the overall importance of the national
parks of tourism. For instance, when domestic and foreign tourists stay at Bandhavgarh hotels or book Bandhavgarh tour
package, tourism increases local and international revenues of the
government. Rather than just upgrading rangers’ management, tourism also
improves the vigilance of naturalist guides, conservationists, tourists and
hotel owners. In this way, our royal tigers get protection from all sides.
Despite
of threatening existence, tigers are still surviving with their iconic tourist
importance. More than half of the revenue of tourism comes only with these
existence of these ‘striped golden’ cats. Being the most sought after point of
interest for the tourists, Tigers are the lifeblood of national parks. Hence,
most of the revenues from tourism are spend directly on the conservation of
highly-significant tigers. These are tigers only which are responsible for
handsome amount of revenues from tourism in India.
According to a survey……
Around
1411 tigers were left in India by 2008, which is a sudden downfall from over
3642 in the year 2002. In fact, this is a rough estimate and many conservation
organizations claim that lesser than 1411 tigers are living in India till date.
Role of tourism in conserving
tigers
Roughly
10 out of 37 tiger reserves organize Tiger Tourism in India. Saving tigers by
tourism is still a million-dollar question whose accurate answer is not
revealed yet. However, National Tiger Conservation Authority still has reasons
to prove how tourism is saving tigers. The national parks and sanctuaries are
conserving a large population of tigers left in India.
International
funding is also using to conserve the tigers along with government funding. Some
countries like South Africa are making maintenance cost for the national parks
from the tourism. Hence, it is important for the Wildlife Tourism of India to
learn something from these countries. Only a small percentage of maintenance
cost is collected at wildlife sanctuaries of India.
Bottom Line
During
the period of rainfall when tourism is slow, the wild poaches are activated to
start their business without being caught by the hoteliers, tourists and tour
operators. Hence, it is important for the government to upgrade the population of
tigers by taking strict measures.
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