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Tiger Range Countries (TRCs) have finalized a Global program for restoring wild tiger populations in the World. After two year long deliberations this programme was finalized yesterday in New Delhi at the end of a two day workshop ‘Consensus for Conservation’. Representatives from Tiger range countries participated in the workshop, which was organized by the Ministry of Environment and Forests through the National tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and co-hosted by the Global Tiger Initiative supported by Global Environment Facility (GEF), Smithsonian Institution, the World Bank and other partners.

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam are Tiger Range Countries. Earlier they met at Kathmandu, Nepal and Bangladesh and gave their national inputs to finalize of the Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), supported by 13 parallel National Tiger Recovery programs. This will pave the way for a historic endorsement of the GTRP by TRCs leaders at the Tiger Summit in St Petersburg, Russia next month. This will begin a decade long process of range-wide recovery, built on the implementation of national actions and also trans-boundary actions to curb illegal trade and demand for tiger parts. The Summit will be the first of its kind of Tiger Summit.

The GTRP has emerged from a two-year long consultation process in which TRCs have taken the lead in learning from each other about best practices and for defining priority actions to be taken to deal with the crisis of extinction facing the Tiger. The decade’s long experience of India and its expertise gained through Project Tiger has been a valuable input into the GTRP. Early actions to implement policy and institutional actions have already begun in TRCs.

According to Global Tiger Initiative (GTI), the GTRP has a high probability of success because all 13 TRCs are working in concert, with a high level of political commitment to implement a comprehensive program which will be supported and closely monitored by the global conservation community.

Mr. Keshav Varma, Program Director of GTI said that India with its Project Tiger Programme said India is now setting the stage for a global recovery of wild tigers and protection of the economic and bio diversity values of these habitats.