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1. Indian Tiger
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2. Indian Elephant
3. Cheetah
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National Animal of India
High mountains, mangrove
Habitat swamps, grasslands, dry forests, &
evergreen forest systems
Population Around 70% of the world’s wild
Indian Tiger tiger population in India
or Royal Bengal Tiger Other in Bangladesh, Nepal,
Bhutan, China and Myanmar
(panthera tigris)
The Highest Tiger Population
1. Jim Corbett, Uttarakhand
Threats 2. Bandipur, Karnataka
Habitat loss and loss of prey 3. Nagarhole, Karnataka
species, hunting, poaching, & 4. Bandhavgarh, MP
illegal trade, Conflict with humans
5. Dudhwa, UP
Tiger Reserves in India 53
Maximum Tiger Population
A Centrally Sponsored Scheme of 1. Madhya Pradesh
the MoEFCC
2. Karnataka
Ministry of Environment,
Project Forests and Climate Change 3. Uttarakhand
Tiger
Implementing Agency
NTCA - National Tiger Conservation Authority
Launched A statutory body constituted under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972
in 1973
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National Heritage animal of India 1
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More than 60% of all wild Asian elephants
33 Elephant Reserves (ER)
Highest - Tamil Nadu and Assam
Poaching for International illegal ivory
Threats trade and human encroachment
The Indian
Elephant Project A Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Elephant
(elephas maximus) Launched in 1992 by MoEFCC
The largest terrestrial
mammal in India
2 Species Financial & Technical support to
States
Asian Elephants Objective To protect elephants, their
habitat & corridors
1. Indian
Sub Species
2. Sri Lankan
3. Sumatran
Smaller than African elephants
Only some male Asian
elephants have tusks
African Elephants
Sub Species
1. Savanna
2. Forest
The largest species of elephant
Both male and female African elephants grow tusks
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Cheetah
Only a few left in Iran
Extinct in India
Found in the wild of Africa
(Acinonyx jubatus)
The world’s fastest Launched in 2022
land animal As the “Reintroduction of the
Project Cheetah”
Cheetah World's First Inter-Continental
Aim
Large wild carnivore
To establish viable cheetah translocation project by GoI
metapopulation in India At least 50 Cheetahs to be
As they were declared introduced in India over 5 years
extinct from India in 1952
Implementing Agency Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh
NTCA - National Tiger A site to coexist 4 big cats of India
Conservation Authority
1. Tiger 3. Leopard
2. Lion 4. Cheetah
Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctury, MP
20 Cheetahs were translocated
Selected as the second home for from Namibia (8) and South Africa
the translocation of Cheetahs (12) to KNP