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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/how-indias-tiger-reserves-saved-trees-carbon-emissions/>
"The year 2023 coincided with the 50th anniversary of India’s groundbreaking
Project Tiger, an innovative programme designed to rescue the country’s iconic
big cat from the precipice of extinction. In April, as part of these
celebrations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that tiger numbers in
India have now surpassed 3,000, representing more than 70% of the wild tigers
in the world.
From an initial investment in 1973 of just nine dedicated tiger reserves,
India now protects 54 such areas. It adds up to an area in excess of 75,000 sq
kilometres, or about 2% of the country.
Now, new research in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution has identified a
link between tiger conservation and the fight against climate change. Tigers
are very adaptable and the exact same subspecies, the Bengal tiger, can be
found scattered across India in jungles, mangroves and so-called “dry forests”.
These habitats might seem very different, but the common link is of course lots
of trees.
According to the authors of the new study, the strict protection provided
within India’s network of tiger reserves has avoided huge amounts of
deforestation. And by preserving forests that would have otherwise been chopped
down, between 2007 and 2020, tiger protection may have contributed to over 1
million tonnes of avoided carbon emissions."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
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