Preserve Parks and Habitat of the Endangered Tigers in Nepal & India!

Please sign and share this petition worldwide in our continued efforts to save the endangered tiger species from near extinction. This is such a huge problem in India for various reasons and huge concern is the destruction of the Chitwan National Park in Nepal, Valmiki Tiger Reserve and Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal. With continual human development or anthropogenic pressures, wildlife like that of the tigers will dwindle through displacement and loss of home or habitat.

In Kathmandu, Nepal, issues present concern about the increasing anthropogenic pressures on wildlife and their habitats that threatens their long-term existence. The major concerns are the failing conservation efforts between Nepal and India. Surveys have been conducted since 2012 that showed a decline in the total number of tigers to 229 in 12 protected areas and reserves, along with several protected forests and other forest patches in Nepal and India. Of those numbers, 89 of the tigers were adult males and 145 were adult females while the gender of five others could not be determined The affected areas cover more than 3,500 square miles in the Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal and India.

The encouraging result of the landscape-wide tiger survey is indeed a testimony of increased trans-boundary cooperation between the governments of Nepal and India. The survey has also created opportunities to strengthen cooperation in biodiversity conservation and building community ownership in protecting nature and wildlife. The tigers are found to exist as one wholly-connected population in the protected areas of Chitwan National Park in Nepal, the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in India as well as in Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal and the Lagga-Bagga Block of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in India. The Terai Arc Landscape exemplifies the importance of connectivity for wildlife such as tigers to thrive. With the destruction of their habitat, the existence of the tiger is highly compromised.

Both countries are trying to work together in partnership with their conservation and development partners, including WWF, the National Trust for Nature Conservation and local communities, with some key challenges that are impacting the tigers and prey densities in some habitats, such as poaching, livestock grazing and the entry of large number of wood and grass collectors deep into wildlife habitats. Proposed development of new roads in Nepal and India and establishment of new settlements near the existing tiger habitats is seen as significant threat to the survival of these animals, the report has stated.

We need to encourage Nepal and India Governments to work diligently together in their efforts to preserve the parks and other natural habitat of the severely endangered tigers in both of their countries. Please sign and share this petition worldwide in our continued efforts to save the endangered tiger species from near extinction. This is such a huge problem in India for various reasons and huge concern is the destruction of the Chitwan National Park in Nepal, Valmiki Tiger Reserve and Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal. With continual human development or anthropogenic pressures, wildlife like that of the tigers will dwindle through displacement and loss of home or habitat.