SSC CGL 2019 PYQ — Question 35

Project Tiger was launched in India in ___

1973

What is Project Tiger?

• Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme launched in April 1973 by the GOI during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's tenure, and is still going on. 
• The project aims at ensuring a viable population of Bengal tigers in their natural habitats, protecting 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 distribution of tigers in the country. 
• During the tiger census of 2006, a new methodology was used extrapolating site-specific densities of tigers, their co-predators and prey derived from camera trap and sign surveys using GIS.
• The government has set up a Tiger Protection Force to combat poachers and funded relocation of villagers to minimize human-tiger conflicts.