Context

• Uttarakhand has flaunted its tiger range up to 12,000 ft. as a testimony of Uttarakhand’s success in tiger conservation.

More about news:

• Uttarakhand government highlighted the expanse of the state’s tiger map from Corbett National Park to Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary.

Causes for concern

• Records of high-altitude tigers getting somewhat routine.
• Warming induced by climate change, is making the higher mountains tolerable for tigers.
• Tigers roaming the snow indicates that their upward movement is not deterred by the cold.
• Through better monitoring regime and camera-traps, scientists and managers are now getting to learn more about their actual ranges.

About Jim Corbett National Park:

• It is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger.
• It is located in Nainital district and Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand and was named after hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett.
• The park was the first to come under the Project Tiger initiative.
• Corbett National Park is one of the thirteen protected areas covered by the World Wide Fund For Nature under their Terai Arc Landscape Program.
• The program aims to protect three of the five terrestrial flagship species, the tiger, the Asian elephant and the great one-horned rhinoceros, by restoring corridors of forest to link 13 protected areas of Nepal and India, to enable wildlife migration.
• The Ramganga river flow through this park. The park encompasses the Patli Dun valley formed by the Ramganga river.

Royal Bengal Tiger:

• It forms a specific population of the Pantheratigristigris subspecies that is native to the Indian subcontinent.
• Threats: poaching, loss and fragmentation of habitat.
• IUCN Status: Endangered.
• Protected under schedule 1 of Wildlife Protection Act.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/international-tiger-day-uttarakhand-government-7435374/

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