Uttarakhand to Translocate Four Tigers to Rajasthan

• 30 Mar 2024

Why in News?

Recently, the Uttarakhand government has agreed to translocate four tigers to Rajasthan following a request from the authorities.

Key Points

According to guidelines of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA),the tigers to be sent to Rajasthan will not be captured from the protected forest area but from the buffer zone.

• A similar request for the relocation of three tigers to Odisha has also been received and it is under consideration.

• The requests from the Rajasthan and the Odisha governments for the translocation of tigers were received following the successful operation of the tiger relocation project in Uttarakhand under which four big cats were translocated from the Corbett Tiger Reserve to Rajaji Tiger Reserve.

National Tiger Conservation Authority

• It is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
• It was established in 2005 following the recommendations of the Tiger Task Force.
• It was constituted under enabling provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in 2006, for strengthening tiger conservation, as per powers and functions assigned to it.

Rajaji Tiger Reserve

• It is located in Haridwar (Uttarakhand), along the foothills of the Shivalik range. It is part of Rajaji National Park.
• Rajaji National Park was established in the year 1983 after amalgamating three sanctuaries in the Uttarakhand i.e., Rajaji, Motichur and Chila.
• It was named after the famous freedom fighter C. Rajgopalachari; popularly known as “Rajaji”.
• It was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2015 as the 48^th tiger reserve of the country.