Organization
Project Tiger is administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority. The overall administration of the project is monitored by a Steering Committee. A Field Director is appointed for each reserve, who is assisted by the field and technical personnel. At the centre, a full-fledged Director of the project coordinates the work for the country..The main species of Tiger In India is The Royal Bengal Tiger.
Wireless communication system and outstation patrol camps have been developed within the tiger reserves, due to which poaching has declined considerably. Fire protection engineering is carried out by suitable preventive and control measures. Villages have been relocated in many reserves, especially from core areas. Livestock grazing has been controlled to a great extent in the tiger reserves. Various compensatory developmental works have improved the water regime and the ground and field level vegetation, thereby increasing the tiger density.
Tiger conservationist Valmik Thapar has analysed the perceived failure of Project Tiger. His critique draws attention to its mismanagement by a forest bureaucracy that is largely not scientifically trained. His most recent book The Last Tiger, Oxford University Press makes this case strongly. Among the consistent criticisms levelled by Thapar is the Ministry of Environment and Forests' unwillingness to curb poaching through armed patrols and its refusal to open forests to scholarly scientific enquiry.
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