New Delhi, Sept 2 (PTI) Tiger landscapes represent valuable natural capital, providing critical ecosystem services such as water security, carbon sequestration, climate regulation, biodiversity conservation and livelihood support, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Wednesday.
Talking about India’s conservation journey under Project Tiger, the minister said the survival of tigers is intrinsically linked to the health of forests, grasslands, rivers, prey species, wildlife corridors and local communities.
Inaugurating a two-day international workshop on ‘Tiger Landscapes: Conservation, Bioeconomy and Ecotourism as Pillars for Livelihood and Income Generation’, Yadav said, “Conservation with harmony and human-nature coexistence should be the foundation of ecological conservation.” The workshop is being jointly organised by the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
Yadav said the workshop should focus on knowledge sharing, capacity building, native knowledge sharing and transforming the nature of policy-making.
“The IBCA must take the lead to bring together native wisdom from the Global South in devising ecological conservation policies,” the minister for environment, forest and climate change said.
During the event, the IBCA and the ADB signed an MoU to strengthen their collaboration in landscape conservation, sustainable development, capacity building, knowledge exchange and nature-positive financing initiatives. PTI ALC ALC ARI ARI
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