Save The Tiger Campaign
My hearty congratulations to NDTV, Aircell and Amitabh bacchan for coming together to create a Fund raiser yesterday for the SAVE THE TIGER campaign. The total collection as at the end of 11.00 pm yesterday was Rs. 4,48,60,002. While the public contributed half of it, the rest came from this gentleman Mr Hemadra Kothari. he had promised that upto a ceiling of Rs. 2..50 crores, he would give the same amount that was collected from the general public. What a wonderful gesture.
Amitabh Bacchan lend his hand in terms of placing his Cartier watch for auction, which went for Rs. 7.00 + lakhs,
Good work by all the great people, which shows how united we stand, we can do wonders.
Thank you NDTV, Aircell, Amitabh, Mr Hemdra Kothari and all the unknown faces who have come forward to donate liberally.
What is this Project Tiger all about
Some excepts from the Project Tigr website :
Project Tiger: Project Tiger, launched in 1973-74, is one of our most successful conservation ventures in the recent times. The project aims at tiger conservation in specially constituted 'tiger reserves', which are representative of various bio-geographical regions falling within our country. It strives to maintain a viable tiger population in the natural environment.
An estimate of the tiger population in India, at the turn of the century, placed the figure at 40,000. Subsequently, the first ever all India tiger census was conducted in 1972 which revealed the existence of only 1827 tigers. Various pressures in the later part of the last century led to the progressive decline of wilderness, resulting in the disturbance of viable tiger habitats. At the IUCN General Assembly meeting in Delhi, in 1969, serious concern was voiced about the threat to several species of wildlife and the shrinkage of wilderness in the country. In 1970, a national ban on tiger hunting was imposed and in 1972 the Wildlife Protection Act came into force. A 'Task Force' was then set up to formulate a project for tiger conservation with an ecological approach.
http://projecttiger.nic.in/
However, according to the blog save-tiger.blogspot.com :
Initial results from the Wildlife Institute of India Tiger census (released on 24 May 2007) are warning that India has far fewer tigers living than had been previously thought. Complete stories on avaibale on BBC & Discovery Channel. The next five years are going to be extremely critical if we are to save India's Tigers & forests. This is a small attempt to mobilise people like you & me to connect with conservationists out there with plenty of energy but very little money Visit this blog spot for a beautiful video on this topic.
http://save-tiger.blogspot.com/
Lets put our hands together to preserve the nature and all its creatures
Amitabh Bacchan lend his hand in terms of placing his Cartier watch for auction, which went for Rs. 7.00 + lakhs,
Good work by all the great people, which shows how united we stand, we can do wonders.
Thank you NDTV, Aircell, Amitabh, Mr Hemdra Kothari and all the unknown faces who have come forward to donate liberally.
What is this Project Tiger all about
Some excepts from the Project Tigr website :
Project Tiger: Project Tiger, launched in 1973-74, is one of our most successful conservation ventures in the recent times. The project aims at tiger conservation in specially constituted 'tiger reserves', which are representative of various bio-geographical regions falling within our country. It strives to maintain a viable tiger population in the natural environment.
An estimate of the tiger population in India, at the turn of the century, placed the figure at 40,000. Subsequently, the first ever all India tiger census was conducted in 1972 which revealed the existence of only 1827 tigers. Various pressures in the later part of the last century led to the progressive decline of wilderness, resulting in the disturbance of viable tiger habitats. At the IUCN General Assembly meeting in Delhi, in 1969, serious concern was voiced about the threat to several species of wildlife and the shrinkage of wilderness in the country. In 1970, a national ban on tiger hunting was imposed and in 1972 the Wildlife Protection Act came into force. A 'Task Force' was then set up to formulate a project for tiger conservation with an ecological approach.
http://projecttiger.nic.in/
However, according to the blog save-tiger.blogspot.com :
Initial results from the Wildlife Institute of India Tiger census (released on 24 May 2007) are warning that India has far fewer tigers living than had been previously thought. Complete stories on avaibale on BBC & Discovery Channel. The next five years are going to be extremely critical if we are to save India's Tigers & forests. This is a small attempt to mobilise people like you & me to connect with conservationists out there with plenty of energy but very little money Visit this blog spot for a beautiful video on this topic.
http://save-tiger.blogspot.com/
Lets put our hands together to preserve the nature and all its creatures
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