SPREAD AWEARNESS ABOUT TIGERS TO WORLD

Spread the Word
Let everyone know that our tigers are on the brink of extinction and that they need us. Now. You can start by joining the Save Our Tigers movement on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and spreading the word wherever you go – online or offline
SMS
A short message can go a long way to help save our tigers. Let all your friends know about the movement through SMS – just type in your message and ask them to visit SaveOurTigers.com to join the roar

Write to Editors
Write a letter or an email to editors of popular newspapers and magazines, asking them to support the cause and highlight the urgency to save our tigers. The more people we can reach and inform, the louder our roar will be

Donate
Organizations such as WWF and The Corbett Foundation work for tiger conservation and need our active support. If possible, you can chip in with funds, volunteer for work or donate clothes, etc. for the forest guards by tying up with such organizations.
Volunteer for Our Tigers 
Your time is the most important contribution for our tigers. If you think you have the skills or the commitment to help the tigers on-site, do contact an NGO working for tiger conservation to volunteer for our tigers
Preserve our Natural Resources 
Loss of habitat is one of our tigers’ biggest problems. We can reduce pressure on forests by avoiding unnecessary use of forest-derived products, such as paper and timber
Be a Responsible Tourist 
Visit tiger sanctuaries and national parks and discover our country’s natural heritage. But please remember that the wilderness is to be experienced, not to be polluted by packets of chips, etc
AMITABH BACHCHAN

Amitabh Bachchan speaks on the six point agenda to encourage involvement in the movement to save a part of our heritage - our tigers - before it is lost forever.

Principal communication to Chief Ministers

Protecting the tiger, our national animal, and its forests, is crucial to the water, food and economic security of the state. These forests are life-saving infrastructures which will save lives, and livelihoods as climate change moves into higher gear.

Enhancing protection for these forests not only consolidates the ecological and economic foundation of the state, but would also prevents insurrectionists and terrorists, who are in league with the illegal timber and wildlife trade, from stealing forest wealth, which they are using to buy arms and ammunition and to sustain their cadres engaged in anti-national activities.

It is possible to offer guaranteed employment to all adults living in communities immediately surrounding tiger forests.

Immediate Action Points:

1. Protect the Protectors: Fill forest Guard vacancies within six months. Give forest guards better working conditions, the best leadership, equipment and training and restore foot patrols.
2. Consolidate Tiger Reserves: Notify buffer zones, protect corridors, stop large scale construction, mining, and damaging projects in and around tiger reserves, divert new highway alignments away from core/critical tiger habitats and restrict traffic from dusk to dawn in existing ones.
3. Resettle Villages from core/critical tiger habitats: This should be quick, fair and voluntary.
4. Compensate livestock deaths quickly: Work with NTCA-recommended independent NGOs to certify eligibility. Make quick and fair payments to prevent poisoning of carcases.
5. Crackdown on poaching: Follow up tight patrolling with speedy convictions and levy punative spot fines and seize vehicles of offenders.
6. Declare tiger reserve buffers as Green Economic Zones (GEZ): All adults living OUTSIDE, within 10 sq km of critical and core critical tiger habitats to be offered livelihoods based on the restoration of the habitat.

NDTV State Agendas : Read NDTV's state-wise agendas for 8 states »
At the turn of the century, there were around 40,000 tigers in India. This number has now decreased drastically. What started as a Royal Sport during the olden times is now a target of Poaching and Depleting Habitat. Our National Animal is fighting for its life! 

The rich biodiversity and natural capital of India can be witnessed in the Tiger Sanctuaries. Knowledge of these sanctuaries helps build awareness for the cause
aTiger FactsAt the turn of the century, there were around 40,000 tigers in India. This number has now decreased drastically.2009 was the worst year for tigers in India, with 86 deaths reported.There are 37 Tiger sanctuaries in India. However, 17 sanctuaries are on the verge of losing their tiger population.Corbett National Park is the oldest tiger park in India. It was created in 1936 as ‘Hailey National Park’.The Kanha National Park’s lush sal and bamboo forests, grassy meadows and ravines provided inspiration to Rudyard Kipling for his famous novel, The Jungle Book.