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Saving the tiger becomes a 'core' issue [1]

1,706 tigers today, up from 1,411 in 2007

Should the approximately 1,700 tigers left in India be treated as sacrosanct, not to be exploited by India’s tourism industry? Or, should they be looked at as valuable commodities, responsible for filling the coffers of the state? This is the firestorm of a debate that Ajay Dubey sparked off, when he, through a public interest litigation filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court in September 2010, asked that tourism be banned in ‘core’ tiger areas — zones where tiger density is particularly high — in line with the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and its 2006 amendment.

Publication Date: 
06/09/2012
Ruchika Chitravanshi and Nivedita Mookerji [2]
Business Standard (New Delhi) [3]
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Tiger [4], Tourism Industry [5], Public Interest Litigation (PIL) [6], Madhya Pradesh [7], High Court [8], Wildlife Act 1972 [9], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [10], Ecotourism [11], Supreme Court [12], Ranthambore NP [13], Tiger Conservation [14], Kanha NP [15], Sariska NP [16], Pench NP [17], Dandeli SA [18], Bhadra SA [19], Nagarahole NP [20], National Tiger Conservation Authority [21], WWF [22], Tiger Reserves [23], Wildlife Tourism [24], Endangered Species [25], Wildlife [26]

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