Vanishing Stripes II

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Vanishing Stripes II
A Report by CREW On the Status of Tiger and Its Habitat in the Central Province of Madhya Pradesh, India- April, 2000

Tiger and Its Habitat
Tiger continues to remain the main concern of CREW when we are confronted with the question of the protection and conservation of wildlife and ecological balance in the country in general and Madhya Pradesh in particular. Unfortunately the circumstances on the ground indicate that the powers that be only pay lip service and exhibit superficial concern for the basic issues involved; whereas they remain mainly interested in deriving benefits, both financial as well as political by ensuring populist activities to continue even in the core forest areas. Unless ecological balance is ensured on a long-range basis, no living species, including the human beings, may be able to survive. CREW remains vitally concerned about the survival of Tiger as the most important of the wildlife species in its natural ecologically balanced surroundings.

The idea is to save the tiger in its natural surroundings. The tiger will be safe in the wild only when there is prey-base. This would in turn depend on the survival of the flora, i.e., grasses, fruit bearing trees, herbs, shrubs, and the water bodies along with other factors linked with the habitat.

All this would form a perfect ecological system, leading to better climate and rainfall by protecting the green cover, reducing soil erosion, recharging the ground water, ensuring perennial flow in rivers and nullifying other factors that pollute the environment. Consequently the phenomenon of Global warming would get arrested, the ozone layer would be protected, there would be less harmful radiation and the Earth would become a better place for the coming generations.

What should not be lost track of by any one is the importance of each and every link in the vital ecological chain because once the chain gets broken, it is bound to trigger grave after effects. The unfortunate part of the whole story is that the Trustees of nature—those holding executive authority—only lend lip service when it comes to protecting the ecological chain. The ground reality is rather dismal since the politicians and those responsible for protecting the forests and wildlife either choose to turn a Nelson’s eye or end up becoming part of the whole nexus or the mafia engaged in looting the forests and other natural resources.

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