Measures announced to protect India's tigers
Friday, January 29, 2010Imaginative travellers holidaying in countries such as India may find that they will have a better chance of spotting a tiger in the future thanks to an international agreement between 13 Asian nations to double the wild population of the big cats in the next 12 years.
Thailand, Nepal, China and Vietnam were also represented at the Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation, which was held in Hua Hin, a Thai coastal resort.
Delegates at the event pledged to increase the wild tiger population to some 7,000 by 2022 and were urged to make clear commitments toward saving the striped cats ahead of a planned Tiger Summit set to be held in Russia later this year.
In June 2009, Daily Mail writer Mark Palmer noted that catching sight of a leopard while on safari in Ranthambore National Park in the Indian state of Rajasthan was nearly as rewarding as spotting one of the elusive big cats.
He noted that while he did not end up catching sight of a tiger, his group of imaginative travellers sighted deer, antelope, mongoose, wild boar, numerous types of birds and monkeys.
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