The Travel Operators for Tigers campaign has over 120 Travel companies members involved in all aspects of wildlife tourism, with the aim of advocating, encouraging and supporting responsible use of wild habitats to preserve its remaining forests. www. toftigers.org.
Join us if you can help. The one fact that struck me as the most interesting at a recent lecture by Dr Raghu Chandawat, an imminent Tiger scientist, was that a well known tourism zone of Bandhavgarh Tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh held a greater density of wild tigers than he had ever believed possible in such a small area. So is tourism really that good at protecting tigers?
The fact is that today, parks with both tigers and tourism hold the greatest density of tigers left in India. Screaming headlines across the world tell the real story of plummeting wild tiger numbers, with ‘independently verified’ figures now reckoning numbers to be 1300, a....
