India hosts nearly 70% of the world's wild tiger population, and the government is working to manage the growing numbers through a landscape-level approach.
Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav said in an interview that the government is focusing on areas outside tiger reserves with human-tiger interface issues, using technological interventions and community participation to mitigate conflicts.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has launched the project "Tiger outside Tiger Reserves" to address human-tiger conflicts and strengthen community participation in tiger conservation.
India is also strengthening landscape-based conservation through initiatives such as Project Tiger, Project Cheetah, and Project Snow Leopard, integrating technology-driven monitoring and community participation.
The International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) will promote international cooperation, knowledge-sharing, and best practices for balancing conservation with developmental needs.
India's conservation success reflects the effectiveness of sustained protection efforts, habitat management, and community participation, but the focus is now on ensuring balanced landscape-level conservation through habitat connectivity, prey-based augmentation, and community-centric conflict mitigation measures.
The government is working on strengthening coexistence strategies, early warning systems, securing corridors to maintain gene flow between areas, and enabling seamless dispersal of tigers from high to low-density areas.
