24/08/2007 to 24/08/2007
Conference Room 1, India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
Organised by: Toxics Link in collaboration with India International Centre
The declining tiger population in India, which is home to half of the world’s surviving tiger population in the wild, has become a routine headline. The latest figure of 1,300 to 1,500 released by the Government from its yet to be finalised census of the big cats is just another piece of news in this link.
Poverty, poachers, poor enforcement, shrinking habitat, man-animal conflict and administrative inefficacy are some of the words that have been tossed around for over half-a-century. But even as we read, and the government agencies take a tiger count, the pug marks of the big cat continue to vanishfrom India’s wilderness.
Toxics Link, in collaboration with IIC, invites you for a panel discussion on declining number of tigers and failed conservation efforts, in a bid to highlight concerns that need to be tackled for keeping the tigers alive.
The panel discussion will be preceded by screening of ‘Tiger- the death chronicles’ by Krishnendu Bose.
Panelist: Dr. Rajesh Gopal, Member Secretary, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, environmetalist and academic, and Samir Sinha, WWF-India.
The discussion will be moderated by Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link.
Date: 24th August 2007, Time: 6:30
