Tiger Conservation Plan: Water Development & Habitat Improvement

Mr Vansh Maheshwari, Amity Law School, Noida, Amity University Uttar Pradesh

ABSTRACT

Habitat enhancement and water development are becoming increasingly significant for animals in India and worldwide, particularly tigers, which are vital to our ecosystem. As a large predator, the tiger is crucial to maintaining healthy ecosystems. The Tiger Conservation Plan aims to improve the habitat of tigers to ensure their long-term survival and recovery. Tiger habitats are protected, restored, and managed through habitat enhancement. Developing and implementing sustainable land-use practices that support tiger conservation, such as sustainable agriculture and forestry practices, and promoting alternative livelihoods for local communities that do not rely on activities that threaten tiger habitat. In addition, reforestation, soil and water conservation, and other activities that reduce erosion and increase soil fertility can enhance tiger habitat.

The Tiger Conservation Plan's water resource development objectives and aims are to preserve local water management and safeguard tigers and their prey. Tigers drink, hunt, and survive in water. Climate change, habitat loss, and fragmentation threaten the tiger's water resources. Tiger conservation needs water. Examples include restoring rivers, marshes, and waterholes. Water sustains livestock, ecotourism, tigers and their prey, and tiger prey. The overall objective of the development of water resources is to ensure the long-term survival and recovery of tiger populations by ensuring they have access to secure and dependable water sources while promoting sustainable development in and around tiger habitats.

The National Tiger Conservation Authority1 (NTCA) a statutory body under the ministry of environment, forests and climate change was made to tackle all these problems and this statutory body was constituted under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.