Project Tiger‚ launched in 1973-74‚ is one of our most successful conservation projects in recent times. The project aims at tiger conservation in specially constituted ’tiger reserves‚ which are representative of various bio- geographical regions within the country. Is committed to maintaining a viable population of tigers in the wild. An estimate of the population of tigers in India at the turn of the century‚ placed the figure of 40‚000. Subsequently‚ the first tiger census in India
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Project Tiger was launched by Kailash Sankhala in India in 1973. The project aims at ensuring a viable population of Bengal tigers in their natural habitats and also to protect them from extinction‚ and preserving areas of biological importance as a natural heritage forever represented as close as possible the diversity of ecosystems across the tiger ’s distribution in the country. The project ’s task force visualized these tiger reserves as breeding nuclei‚ from which surplus animals would migrate
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Endangered Species: Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) By Natalie Hegwein The common name for the species is Bengal Tiger and it belongs to the genus/species Panthera tigris tigris. The Bengal Tiger usually has a reddish brown coat with narrow black‚ gray‚ or brown strips going in a vertical direction accompanied by a cream or white underbelly. Although some have a mutation gene which causes the skin color to be white instead of the usual color. Since the tigers generally hunt at dusk
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Siberian Tigers are the absolute best representation of the harsh Siberian wilderness. These tigers were once found throughout the Russian Northeast‚ Northern China and the Korean mountain side. By the 1940s‚ hunting had driven the Siberian tiger to the edge of extinction‚ with no more than 40 tigers remaining in the wild. The Siberian Tiger was given a life saver when Russia became the first country in the world to grant the tiger full protection. During the 1980’s the population of the Siberian
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Describing a Tiger 4 comments 17 Votes Describing a Tiger This post describes a tiger in a rainforest in three levels. Level 1 is for beginners‚ Level 3 is for intermediate learners and Level 5 is for advanced English speakers. It uses the five senses as much as possible. For much more of these types of posts‚ please check out my new book Writing with Stardust by clicking the book title. It comes with a spelling workbook as well. Enough of that‚ however‚ and let us talk about tigers. At
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Tiger Sharks Rosalani and Romina Mr. Wiscott Modern Hawaiian History May 17‚ 2002 The tiger shark‚ Galeocerdo cuvier‚ is a large (up to 18ft) predator found in tropical and subtropical waters world wide. Tiger sharks are one of the three main shark species known to attack humans‚ and are responsible for most shark attacks in Hawaii. Less than one shark attack occurs per year on average in Hawaii (compared to an annual average of 40 thousand drowning) and mosts attacks are non-fatal
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SECTION D: LITERATURE Syllabus for TERM I (SA I) FICTION TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA -A J Cronin Two Gentlemen of Verona is a touching story of Jacopo and Nicola‚ two brothers aged 12 and 13‚ who do odd jobs and live a hard life themselves to sustain and treat their elder sister Lucia‚ who is suffering from tuberculosis of the spine. A J Cronin uses the title of William Shakespeare’s famous play‚ The Two Gentlemen of Verona in an ironic manner. Cronin’s portrayal of these modern "gentlemen" of Verona
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The significance of the Darkness and the Light in the book The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The contrast between the Darkness and the Light is often mentioned in this book. The darkness is described as the poor and miserable areas of the rural India‚ while the light is the opposite. In the light there are often flourishing cities crawling with entrepreneurs and hard workers. In The White Tiger one gets to follow Balram Halwai’s journey from the darkness to the light. Needless to say‚ India
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the way to his Dad with his golf swing. Tiger Woods came on the Mike Douglas show along with his Dad to show off his talent for the game of golf. Tiger’s father‚ Earl Woods had always been a lifelong golf advocate. Most people feel like Earl Woods was a bigger fan of golf then his son and Tiger merely started to play the sport due to his father’s passion for the game and he wanted to make his dad proud so he took up the sport practically out of the womb. Tiger came onto the scene at such a young age
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“The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga is a piece of literature that talks about India left and right. A book that can be half fiction half true. It talks about the fortunate and the unfortunate‚ the rich and the poor. The irony shown in this book about corruption‚ oppression of the poor‚ reality of India vs. the images foreigners have of India help portray our understanding of this novel. The irony in “The White Tiger” shows the corruption in India. Balram Halwai is a student in a school with a teacher
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