Friday 5 August 2016

Congrats Dehradun For Getting The First Tiger Cell Of India, Will Help In Tiger Conservation

Dehradun, the capital city of Uttarakhand will get the first tiger cell of the country as the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) campus, Dehradun and National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will be signing a Memorandum of understanding on Saturday in this regard.


The tiger cell will manage the database of tigers from around 50 tiger reserves and it is being set up in order to boost the conservation of tigers by regularly keeping a track of their population and incidents of poaching taking place in the country.

The senior scientist, YV Jhala at Wildlife Institute of India will be the head of this program.


YV Jhala told TOI that this tiger cell will have all the data from all over the country for over more than last 10 years and the cell will also have the authority to give permission for development projects in locations which are tiger habitats.


A database of DNA samples of tigers has also been created by WII which will help them in identifying the location and original home places of tigers. \

Tags:Wildlife Institute of India, WII, campus, Dehradun, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), tiger, cell, DNA, TOI

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