Indian wildlife sanctuary, information data and its condition

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@jeets, that is not true. Animals like tigers need large landscapes to live, even if there is supposedly large "wild" areas, in fact this normally lack the necessary prey densities or are heavily disturbed by human intervention. You can't "pack" large groups of tigers in a single area, because they are territorial and even protected areas have a finite space for a population.

Numbers alone can be tricky, the areas need to be secure and protected. According with the numbers that you posted, we can put wild animals in any part of those "thousands" of kilometers, but the REAL issue is that there is not space for them, as those areas are no longer "wild".

Check this map:

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Only the red areas have "known" tiger populations, which are ridiculous small, and besides, you most take in count the densities of each area. For example, there are more tigers in one small red dot in India than in the large red patch in Sumatra. The yellow areas are proposed for tiger conservation and represent possible areas for reintroduction, but it need a real work in order to be prepared to have wild animal populations. Still, this yellow areas are even less than 20% of the Indian territory.

IF India want to save them tigers, they need to make a real compromise to save them AND its habitat. In this side, Russia and Nepal are making a better work. Reply