India ready to take leadership role, work with other tiger range nations: Union Min Javadekar

India is rey to take a leership role and work with or tiger range countries for manment of reserves, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javekar said on Tuesday.

Speaking on eve of Global Tiger Day, minister said India is proud of its achievements and despite scarcity of land and rainfall, it boasts of eight per cent of world's biodiversity.

"In 1973, re were just nine tiger reserves which have w increased to 50. It is important to kw that ne of se reserves are poor quality. Eir y are good or best.

"Despite India's constraint of 2.5 per cent of global land, four per cent of rainfall and 16 per cent of world's human population, India is home to eight per cent of world's biodiversity which includes 70 per cent of world's tiger population," he said.

He said India is rey to work with or tiger range countries for conservation of big cat.

"We are rey to take leership role and work with all 12 tiger range countries in ir training, capacity building and in actual manment of tiger reserves," Javekar said.

re are currently 13 tiger range countries -- India, Banglesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.

At event, a report on condition of all 50 tiger reserves was released. As per report, Mhya Presh has maximum number of tigers followed by Karnataka.

Besides minister, event was attended by Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo who said India's contribution to tiger conservation is so fascinating that Guinness Book of World Records has ackwledged it.

prime minister h in 2019 released a tiger estimation report as per which, India recorded 2,967 tigers, more than double number from 1,411 in 2006.

Im credits: PTI