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Saving Bengal Tigers from Tourism

Slug: India tiger tourism

Date: 7/8/2012Reporter: Shuriah Niazi

INTRO:

The Supreme ourt in India has ordered a temporar! "an on tourism in more than #0 o$ the

%ountr!&s %entral go'ernment(run tiger reser'es)

Tiger num"ers ha'e shrun* alarmingl! in India in re%ent de%ades)

+ 2011 %ensus %ounted a"out 1,700 tigers in the -ild) + %entur! ago there -ere estimated to "e

100,000 tigers in India)

+s Shuriah Niazi reports $rom .adh!a radesh the "an has spar*ed protests the tiger tourism

industr!)

TT:

S o$ tiger roaring

India is home to the -orld3s largest tiger population)

'er! !ear more than hal$ a million people tra'el to India to go on tiger sa$aris)

The industr! is -orth around t-o and hal$ million 4S dollars ea%h !ear)

S o$ tiger roaring

5ut tigers are also one o$ the most endangered mammals on earth)

oa%hing is the main pro"lem)

5ut a%%ording to %onser'ationist +6a! Du"e!, %ommer%ial a%ti'ities and human distur"an%e,

in%luding tourism, is to "lame)

+6a! Du"e! I 1 .ale, 9indi: ;I thin* tourism has ne'er helped in %onser'ing tiger

population) In man! tiger reser'es in India, -here entire tiger population -ere -iped out,

tourism -as going on in $ull s-ing) Tourist 'ehi%les entering the %ore areas o$ reser'estraumatize the tigers) 5rutal murder o$ a tigress in 5andha'garh in 2010 "! some tourists is an

e72, -hi%h sa!s that tourism should not "e allo-ed in %ore areas)?

So distur"ed -ith the impa%t tourism -as happening, +6a! Du"e! de%ided to ta*e his %on%erns

all the -a! to the Supreme ourt)

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9e $iled a petition sa!ing that the go'ernment must regulate tourist a%ti'ities in tiger reser'es)

+6a! Du"e! %lip 2.ale, 9indi:? I -anted the implementation o$ the 1>72 =ildli$e rote%tion

+%t) The la- sa!s that %riti%al tiger ha"itats, the %ore areas, should "e *ept in'iolate o$ human

a%ti'ities) The implementation o$ the a%t is important in order to %onser'e tigers)?

+nd last month, the Supreme ourt ruled in his $a'our "! imposing a temporar! "an $or tiger

tourism in their ;%ore areas?)

The Supreme ourt -ill gi'e its $inal 'erdi%t on +ugust 22 a$ter in'estigating -hether tourism in

India3s tiger pars* is in $a%t lo- impa%t)

=asan @adri $rom the National Tiger onser'ation +uthorit! -el%omes the de%ision)

=asim @adri %lip 1.ale, 9indi: ;The Supreme ourt has passed an order that there -ould "e

no tourism in the %ore area o$ the tiger reser'ations) The ourt has dire%ted all states to $ollo-the 'erdi%t and to $ile an a$$ida'it a"out this) The %ourt had also made a $ine o$ 200 4S dollars as

%ompulsar! "e%ause states had not $iled an! a$$ida'it despite t-i%e orders $rom the %ourt)?

5ut tiger tourism operators are 'er! -orried a"out the $uture)

+dit!a Singh is the o-ner o$ a resort inside Ratham"ore Tiger Reser'e in Ra6asthan state)

+dit!a Singh %lip 1.ale, nglish: ;I am not OA -ith this order) It3s a Supreme ourt de%ision,

"ut it3s %urrentl! under trial) I -on3t %omment on the order) 5ut it -ill surel! a$$e%t ourli'elihood) There are man! small to-ns and 'illages around tiger reser'ation area that depend on

this tourism) This is a disaster)?

In e"ruar! an entire 'illage -as relo%ated in Ra6asthan to prote%t the animals)

Those -ho -ere mo'ed got ne- land, some %ash and li'esto%* -orth up to 20,000 4S dollarsea%h)

There are still 11 'illages -ith a population o$ nearl! 2,B00 people in the heart o$ Saris*a tiger

reser'e in Ra6asthan)

S o$ tiger roaring

+nil Singh3s li$e depends on the tiger reser'es C 6ust li*e 1800 others $rom his 'illage)

9e -or*s as a dri'er at Satpura tiger reser'es in .adh!a radesh, -hile others as tour guides or-or*s in the hotels)

+nil Singh %lip 1.ale, 9indi: ;I$ the "an %ontinues, -e -ill "e le$t -ithout an! 6o") I don3t

ha'e other s*ills to sur'i'e) I thin* "anning tourism isn3t going to sol'e an! pro"lem) Thousands

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o$ people depend on tourism $or their li'elihood) I thin* the Supreme ourt must loo* into all

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