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Project Tiger will displace at least 5.5 lakh Scheduled Tribes and other forest dwellers, a report released by a New Delhi-based rights group on Global Tiger Day
1,60,000 people out of about 2,90,000 people to be displaced in the post-2021 period would be from the Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan
followed by 72,772 people from the Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, and 45,000 from the Ranipur Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh
Project Tiger
It is a tiger conservation programme (a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the MoEF&CC) launched in 1973 by the Government of India and administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
The primary objective of Project Tiger is to ensure the survival and maintenance of the tiger population in their natural habitats by creating dedicated Tiger Reserves.
Method of Tiger Census: The unreliable pug-mark method of the first tiger census in 1972 gave way to more accurate techniques like the camera-trap method.
In 1973, Project Tiger began with nine reserves covering 9,115 sq. km.
By 2018, it had grown to 55 reserves in different states, totalling 78,135.956 sq. km or 2.38% of India's land area.
The monitoring system M-STrIPES(Monitoring System for Tigers - Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) - is a software-based monitoring system developed(by NTCA in 2010)
Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary
It is situated in the Rajsamand district of Rajasthan
Stretching across the Aravalli ranges, it encircles parts of Udaipur, Rajsamand, and Pali districts.
This sanctuary is a part of the Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests ecoregion
Once the hunting grounds of royals, this area was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1971
Encompasses the historic Kumbhalgarh Fort
It acts as a dividing line between Mewar and Marwar, two different parts of Rajasthan
River Banas also graces the sanctuary and is the primary source of water.
The rainwater on the western slopes flows as small rivers such as Sukdi, Mithdi, Sumer and Kot, all of which are the tributaries of River Luni
Inhabited by indigenous tribes such as Bhil, Garasia, and Raika pastoralists.
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