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Tigers Outside Tiger Reserves Initiative
August 1 , 2026
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- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has launched the Tigers Outside Tiger Reserves (TOTR) initiative to conserve tigers living outside protected areas and reduce human-tiger conflict.
- According to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), 35–40% of India's tiger population now lives outside designated Tiger Reserves, making landscape-level conservation essential.
- The first phase will cover 40 forest divisions across nine States: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Assam.
- The initiative will strengthen early warning systems, rapid response teams, rescue infrastructure, camera traps, drones, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Global Positioning System (GPS)-based monitoring, community participation, and timely compensation.
- India has 58 Tiger Reserves covering 84,488 square kilometres, and the All-India Tiger Estimation (2022) recorded 3,682 tigers, accounting for over 70% of the world's wild tiger population.
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