Our national animal is fighting for its life.
From around 40,000 at the turn of the last century, there are just 1411 tigers left in India.
If we don’t act now, we could lose this part of our heritage forever.
Speak up, blog, share the concern, stay informed… Every little bit helps.
Aircel has partnered with WWF-India to help save our tigers. Explore the site to know how you can help.
Watch this space for updates from Stripey, the tiger cub.
Watching the advertisement where a cub waits for his mother to return with food for him and never sees her again,drops everyone’s pulse.the ad touches you and makes you try and take any action that you can possibly take to save our tigers.i think there’s nothing worse than losing our heritage to some hunters.i roar loudly for the cause because i feel strongly about the cause and i pledge to take any possible action that i can actually take to save the tigers.
This initiative has now diverted our attention to this crisis that had been turning more cpmplex day by day. I am happy that atleast now we are aware of this. So guys… its time for action. Let us leave no stone unturned to save our national animal… our NTAIONAL PRIDE!!!
hi,
i m not only writing the blog but also i have send msgs to all mine known persons.i m encouraging everyone who is around me to join & do something for our national animal.i also want to request to all who r joining the project.read,give,share information & motivate people.ROAR & SAVE OUR TIGERS.
poachers should send to jail but the big bosses and dealers should be hanged because for they poachers work. we should not but animal made items
Hello everyone. A sign of respect for all those who have joined up the roar along with me. I am just a normal citizen and so are many of u who r reading my comment which is just a one in 1000s.
Here are my sincere requests:
- Discourage animal products.
- Support wildlife sanctuaries.
- Create an atmosphere of support for the wildlife studies going on.
- Be a true citizen.
- Roar for the Justice.
why is it that the one’s who don’t need protection get it and the one’s who do need it don’t get it till it is too late???
Are we humans only Indians????…..why??? Just because we posses a valid voters identity card or a valid passport?? Are these magnificent individuals like Tigers, Barasingas and other forest residents of our country who have shared this land with us and have been a part of our heritage for, I do not know how many centuries…not our citizens? Why just cause they cannot vote and are not capable of getting our politicians to power? Why is this administration (Government) not so serious about this issue??
Why dose people like sancharjang (I do not feel it important to type his first letter in capital) get away with law after being accused of murdering so many of our Tigers? He and people like him should be hanged!!!! That is what our law dose with serial killers.
I have great respect for our Tiger crusaders who have gone great lengths to fight it out with our administration and have come out with there own investigation to what the reality is.
Let use not be selfish, we will have too hang our heads in shame to the world if we lose our National animal.
It hit me hard when I heard only 1411 are left. Never imagined the number to be so few. Its shocking and sad. Shocking because we let this happen and sad because many of us still don’t care. I have decided to do everything possible-
1. Use my public relations to create awareness
2. Use my voice to raise the issue at every possible occassion and forum
3. Use my influence to make people who matters act
4. Use my expertise to raise funds through various activities & donate to support existing conservation projects
The stripes are getting lesser. If we take initiative with this Save Our Tigers campaign, we may increase the stripes as much as possible. The tigers existed in almost all parts of Southern Asia and Russia. Now they are in India, Russia (Siberia), Tibet and Indonesia. If the world goes more and more industrial like this, we would lose one of the major species, the Royal Bengal tigers. Now they just exist in Bengal, Western Ghats, Assam, Madhya Pradesh and in few parts of Himalayas.
The Project Tiger in 2008 helped to increase the numbers from 1,200 to 1,411. I hope this campaign will also do well….
Wake up India! Save Our Tigers!!!!
1.i totally support the idea of private participation in the maintainence of our conservation parks.
2.moresover i think the penalty for poaching should be a death sentence.
and if we want our national animal to live this should be done real fast.
3.the villages in and around the national parks should be relocated .i know this is a humungus task but urgently required to minimize human and the animals interaction.
3.people should be awarded for information on the poachers.
4.the villagers could be trained to fight against poaching and they could help giving information on the poachers.
5.technologies used in foreign countries to keep a track of the animals geographical whereabouts the radar system should be implemented fast here atleast to keep a track of the number and whereabout of the animal.stop counting the tigers by their pug marks and excreta!there are other ways of identifying the animal
6.getting really agroup of experienced people and forming acore team to lead.a strategy should be developed to completely eradicate poaching . private funding could work since the government as usual would delay with its paperwork.
let us all group together and save this beautiful animal and protect their home.
hi all people
please tell me how a simple man can protest against this
no ordinary many is going to kill tiger…..?? i want to know how he can survive tigers from extinct …..plz reply me
BLOGGING IS GOOD WAY TO EXPRESS OUR FEELINGS…BUT WE ALSO NEED TO BE PRACTICAL.
and WHY only save the tiger,not the rest of the wild life????
SO INSTEAD OF WRITING A BLOG OR SOME THING..TRY TO BE PRACTICAL.TALK TO YOUR NEAREST GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST LEADER,
ON HOW WE ALL CAN UNITE AND FIGHT FOR SAVING WILDLIFE…STARTING FROM TIGERS..:)
cut down all the trees u see…………………………….c’oz they really take lots of space. u can built a nice little kennel for u’r puppy ther or u can even built a beautiful fountain.
shoot down every birds u see…………………………..c’oz they really doesn’t show any manners.they just make the front glass of u’r Mercedes dirty and leave without a word
kill every tigers and lions and leopards and…………………………….. c’oz they kills and they are so scary
burn the forests ………………………………………………………………..
eat elephants……………………………………………………………………
and………………
and…………….
when u get tired of all these……………………………………………….don’t worry…………………………………….nature will help you…………………………
it will take whole water of arabian sea so that u can play cricket there and get refreshed…………….
ganges will go back to the gods so that u can race over the holy path of its…………….
when u want breeze,it will ace katrinas and ritas to you………………………..
cloudless sky will give you a perfect snap shot…………………………….
it will create new deserts so u cant get short of sand for building your sky CRAPER…………………………………..
MAN……….. U MIGHT HAVE KILLED STRIPEYS MOTHER BY A SINGLE BULLET
BUT REMEMBER U R GONNA DIE INCH BY INCH,AND YOU ARE GOING TO ANSWER FOR ALL THE TIGERS U KILLED,TREES U CUT,PEACOCKS U SHOT
It is really sad that we have pushed things to this extent that an initiative like this is needed. This problem is liitle more deeper that just loosing Tigers from our our country, the problem is with a basic element of humanity and kindness…!!
And this is visible all around us, just remember we all were taught to be kind to animals and to anybody weeker than us, as it is a basic element to be a good human beign. Here comes a question, “Are we really KIND ? “, ” Are we really Good ?? ”
I often get surprised to look small kids brutally beating or dragging Stray Puppies by roadside. I sometimes take time to go and tell them to be kind to the little ones, But is anyone doing this coaching everytime an incident like this happens ? Are the parents really taking out time to teach their children One BASIC quality to be kind on animals ?
The answer is simple, it has to begin with all of us. We have to initiate this in our homes, and teach them who dont have access to online forums like this..!! We need to take responsibility to protect and save all Lives around us who cannot do it for themselves…!!
Isn’t it why we were made intelligent and educated, I’d like to Quote here, “With Great Powers comes Great Resposbility..!!”
it was a wonderful to see such a movement. The no.1411 shows how detructive man can be.. only man because man killed most of the animals in the world than the animals themself…Indians dont care about animals & it is pathetic.let us change our attitude towards animals. teach our children the value of other living things in this earth..
PLZ dont KILL ANIMALS.
it is very bad condition .if it is still continue, our next generation doesn’t know about the tigers.please save our tigers
hi everyone
Just wrote something about tigers and join society and groups r not enough efforts. We just need to take some actions agains govermant,forest police nd forest minister they are all Responsible for this
Hi! I request aircel to conduct a peace march on India Gate to promote the project of Save our Tigers. I am pretty hopeful that lot many people will come out in support of this.
Our India is Incredible. We should be proud to be a part of such a nation. Tiger is our National Animal and we are left with only few, saving Tigers will add tour pride. We all shoul appreciate Aicel’s efforts to save our National Animal. We should join in larger numbers. At least we should put in our efforts to save what we have.
I am with Aircel to SAVE OUR TIGERS.
I am a class 4 student and i want to save tigers because i care for them. I will tell all my friends in my class to blog, send sms and donate to save the tigers.
For all our posturing as an “emerging” Super Power, we have repeatedly shown an almost shameless cavalier attitude about all that was handed down to us by ancestors: from The National Sport (that’s Hockey, BTW) to The National Animal (Our Stripey here)…..we bicker about petty stuff, we crucify and canonize transient public faces (Bollywood Stars, Unenduring Politicos), we fail to protect our borders, or for that matter even our martyrs (remember Capt. Saurabh Kalia and our latest hero ACP Ashok Kamte)! We even fail to book and hang our red-handed perpetrators, while age-old national parties go divisive on each other, all in the name of the common man (that’s us again, BTW)! Let us (the so-called common man), now, draw a line and announce,”Stop!”….let’s not fail Stripey…..we’d never find another grand animal to substitute the current National Animal…..no other nation can claim as grandiose a National Animal as we….. think about it! Use the RTI Act….seek out where the funds for WWF went, see what more is needed….why can’t we barter a permanent peace so China and other Traditional medicine Schools stop pushing tiger parts in drugs etc…there is NO conclusive CLINICAL PROOF in support of these claims or products! Maybe we as a people should talk it out with China that they stop shooting our Tigers in lieu of their Chinese Deer (which they ALLEGE we are killing)…..
Tigers are one of the big cats. Imagine what happens when the future generation do not know what a tiger is. How would they accept it as the national animal, if it does not exist? Like jaguar, survives in South America and cheetah survives in Africa alone, tigers are getting extinct. So they must be saved. Or else it could be a major loss. It is the largest cat in the world. It is a quite depressing count. Already we are losing the Asian Lion, which survives in Gujarat alone. If we loose even the tigers, there won’t be any big cat in our country. If tigers do not exist anymore in our country, we should be ashamed of ourselves for not saving our national animal.
Please co-operate with this campaign and save our NATIONAL ANIMAL…
THIS ALL IS NOT ONLY TO SAVE TIGERS AS THEY R OUR NATIONAL ANIMAL BUT ALSO BECAUSE WITHOUT THEM INDIA IS UNIMAGINABLE…………
SO WE MUST COME TOGETHER AND SAVE TIGERS……..
SAVING TIGERS IS TO SAVE INDIA………….
COME ON INDIANS LET’S SHOW OUR UNITY TOWARDS THIS PROJECT IN WHICH WHOLE INDIA IS INVITED,
AND ALSO SENTENCE THOSE PEOPLE WHO KILL TIGERS TO DEATH………..
JAI HIND………….
Let every blogger take the responsibility of spreading the word Save our Tigers through posts and forum discussions and force the government to take some strict action against the poachers.
Raise your voice.. I already have written articles and submitted to different blogger networks..
Tigers………..They are one of the most graceful and magnificent predators and god has given us the privilige to enjoy this beautiful animal. Now, due to the human encroachment of the wildlife habitat and the greed for money has driven this awesome creatures to the brink of extinction. Its a shame on us that we are doing little to protect them. Iam glad to be part of this initiative to protect these wonderful animals and I will do my bit in every possible way.
COME LET US JOIN HANDS AND MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD. LETS REVIVE THE TIGER POPULATION AND SAVE THESE ANIMALS FROM EXTINCTION.
Pls, Save Our Tigers! We need to build in a living world.. We cant let our National Animal be extinct! Raise our voice against all d poachers and hunters! Share and show our concern towards the existence of des wonderful lives! Do your lil bit n God’ll do d rest..
Join d hands for d fyt.. D fyt to save lives.. D fyt for our Nation.. D fyt to make our world living..
Always wit u, Stripey!! We’ll neva let u down!!
yes, if we still not do anything we will definitely loose our national animal…wake up
SAVE TIGERS…….OUR PRIDE AND NATIONAL STATUS
hey i am yash from oman i am indian but settled here. i am very sad that there are only 1411 tigers left in india!!!!!! the criminals shoulD be killled!!!!!! THE OFFICERS WHO ARE THERE IN NATIONAL PARK they dont look after the tigers!!!! they are people first of all they should be put behind the bars!!!!! i want my tigers safe!!!! i am ready to protect it!!!! and the hunters must be punished because they kill tigers for their skin for clothes from that they get lot of money and they kill the tigers. the tiger they kill may be a mother or father or brother!!!!! if we human beings lose our love ones wee cry and nothn feels good so think of the tigers. pls i request the people to kill the tigers they are also living beings!!!!!! i am telling to those who kill them pls dont kill them!!!!!
If China is one of the prime reasons for us losing our tigers, then wonder how all of us crying hoarse to ” SAVE TIGERS” is going to help… unless the message reaches the right people..
1. the poachers who might not know what a blog is.. and don’t care too,
2.the chinese who buy the tigers and
3. our government who can dialogue with the chinese as also set up a superior security arrangement to stop tiger poaching…
visit this link for info http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100120/FOREIGN/701199922/1135
hi
this is dhawal…
i love this animal a lot. moreover it is our national animal….
the hunter for their personal benefit kill such a beautiful animal….
raise ur voice and save the poaching of tigers and other animals also…
v shud also see that other animals such as elephants, hippos and other animals are not killed for leather, tusk or for eating…
v have got lots of options to eat…try veg…
v r humans and superior of all the beings in this world…
dont show ur supremacy..spread love…stop killing..
hey guys wake up …………..
save our national animal frm getting xtinct y
y cant v call rallies or sum thing elz………… so dat de ppl knw abt it
we can have some sponsors 2 it
like aircel took an initiative to save dem…………
lets help dem
On Sundays like today we do everything we can to remove the paralyzing Polio from the face of the earth. We want to let give our kids the opportunity to run. So can we show the same sincerity towards these innocent babies of the wild? Give them too the opportunity to have a fearless run in the wild. Please stop buying furs and hides of these majestic creatures. Make the trade of poaching a fruitless task to pursue.
“just 1411 left”…its just so sad and shameful that we have just been watching our tiger’s population decrease..!!…we should have acted long ago..!!…its just horrifying to see how these tiger’s are being killed..!!..the ferocious and beautiful creature of earth and creatures which belong to our country…and imagine India without the population of its own national animal very humiliating..!!..to save our flora and fauna is the first thing our country must succeed in order for it to improve and develop…..!! and for the poachers…they are the most emotionless and sadist people ever..:p..!!….STOP KILLING THESE POOR CREATURES FOR GOD”S SAKE>.!!!!!!!!
Hi, Now we gotta act like ‘cornered tigers’ to save the tiger. Apart from fighting to save them, can’t we increase their population by breeding the tigers in captivity and leave them in the wild.
I feel for the cause
Other than blogging,donating or volunteering with NGO there is very less for people like me to do for the cause.
Initiatives with fruitful implementation should be taken up by government.
Killing Tiger and other wild animals is a serious offence.
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A legislation should be passed by the IIndian Penal Code which will consider the killing of a tiger,elephant same as that
of the murder of human and punishment should be given accordingly and death sentence if required.
It is only then that there will be a genuine fear to commit this brutal murder of animals.
This blog or for that instance this pledge wont reach the poachers and the people involved in this crime,but strict jurisdition
is surely going to make them think twice before the murder.
If this is a supply-demand chain,then i believe that cutting off the supply line would ensure the protection of OUR TIGERS
It is not only for the love of animals.It is for the sake of HUMANITY.
really shocking to hear tht the national animal of india is on the verge of gettin extinct,………v dont want this to happen 2 our country national animal……save the tigers spread the message……………….only 1411 left……v hav to save the innocent little animals………tigers v are here to help u…..don not worry…………………….lov u tigers….!!!!
How in god’s name can this be happening? How in god’s name can these wondrous, elegant, innocent, godlike creations be perishing? How in god’s name did we let this happen? Who are these insensitive, heartless, ruthless, cowardly, brainless, barbaric that are the cause for this? And why cant our so called government STOP IT? We are to blame! we are to blame for not listening to their cries, we are the ones to blame for not starting early, we are the ones to blame for not caring, we are the ones to blame, for we love denial ( denial, which will eventually be the cause for the extinction of our species, as well). We must stand strong, and become vigilantes if need be and take out those that are responsible for this heinous CRIME . Rich man, poor man, man in trouble, man in power, no matter who he is, we will have to behead him. We are already like a plague on the surface of this planet, SO LET’S PLUCK OUT A FEW OF US, AND SAVE THE TIGER!!!!!!!!!
“JUST 1411 LEFT ” ITS SO SHAMEFUL WE AS INDIANS R LIKE HAVING A TENDENCY OF LEAVING AND IGNORING “BAS HO RAHA HE TOH HONE DO”. I MYSELF IS A STUDENT STUDYING FOR HOTEL MANAGEMENT . BT WHERE WAS ALL WHEN IT LEAD TO 20,000 HA … ALL WHERE SLEEPING HA . REALLY IF WE DNT JOIN TOGETHER KNW …WE R GOING TO REALLY FACE A FUTURE OF INDIA WITHOUT NATIONAL ANIMAL… COME ON MAN ..” SEE I KNW 1 THINK FOR SURE THT IF IT WAS HAPPING IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY OTHER THN INDIA THEY WOULD HADNT BEEN MADE THE NUMBERS SO LESSS.. REALLY … SEE I KNW MY WORDS WORD MAKE SME PERSONS THINK RASH ON ME … BT I WOULD SAY 1 THINK ..PLS IF ANY 1 CAN HEAR ME … PLS IF U WANT MY SUPPPORT IN THIS I WILL SURELLY GIVE U 100% SUPPORT FROM JUNE .. I WOULD HAD BEEN FROM KNW BT MY EXAMS R THERE IN APRIL …. AND MAY … REPLY ME .. OK ….
I went through the Saveourtigers website to be a little more aware of what we could do.
There is a point in time when indirect actions start losing effect and direct ones need focus - this is probably one such cause. And why save only the tiger - let’s just say it is the symbol - the need is to save all of co-life, we have no right to destroy what we cannot create. A lot of us I believe have begun using less paper (eg this blog) but how do we stop the poacher. I cannot think of any more effective action than strengthening our Government run Forest protection force. It is a matter of priority.
When George Bush stated that India and China’s population was putting immense pressure on the food prices, we felt really bad. In some twisted form, isnt that a reality that while our populations explode, the earth can produce only so much to sustain. It brings us back to address some of our basic social factors - population control - no easy solutions here!
I suppose this would explain why our Agriculture minister decided to give up trying to control food prices and instead went about trying to protect another tiger in its den (Maharashtra).
My point is about priorities - I hope the Finance minister allocates more in the coming budget to strengthen the Nation’s commitment and efforts to preserve this heritage - here’s one where even limited funds could go to protect something before it is lost forever.
If our pursuit for prosperity is more important let’s atleast freeze the DNA of these magnificent animals so that when we do find the time….we wouldnt have lost it forever.
1411 is what we have done.Its damn horrifying to believe that our Nation is just left out with 1411 tigers.India is one of the powerful country, we have the strenght to save our tiger, so lets spread the ROAR to save our TIGERS.
STOP MURDERING TIGERS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger
http://www.theinsite.org/earth/earth_es_tiger.html
http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/hunting8.html
http://www.globaltigerpatrol.org/news.htm
http://www.saveourtigers.com/WhatCanDouTube.php
http://www.savethetigerfund.org
http://www.tigerfdn.com
Tiger:
Tigers prey primarily on the animals shown with yellow lines (from left to right):
o Peacock
o Sambar
o Gaur
o Bear
o Chital
o Porcupine
o Buffalo
o Wild Boar
o Nilgai
If we are determined to save our tigers then we can also save all our endangered forest animals.
Awareness to the whole nation.
Increase forest area prevent human intervention in forest area like felling of trees for logs or fire wood or any other purpose, this would even
starve elephants. Strictly prohibit quarying, prevent farming with in forest land. Stop distroying forest by products like honey collection (
fovoured by bears) medicinal plants and herbs.
Reduce Pollution or Stress.
Increase tree and plant population and water resources in to forest land.This would regulate and control the temperature in the forest area by
keeping it cool for the wild animals, this will also improve rainfall, provide sufficient food for the forest animals some of which may be “Tigers
prey animals” benifiting from this effort leading to maximise their population. This would simultaniously improve the tigers population to
expand
Monitor and stop any further poaching.
Increase or introduce new tiger prey population. May be buying or as an exchange programme from other countries.
goverment and forest official to plan strategies to improve and sustain tiger population, stop poaching.
Tiger bank - for captive breeding of tigers for increasing tiger population. May be increase more zoo’s or tiger santuaries.
“Tigers attack a variety of animals, but they prefer deer (sambar, swamp, muntjac, chital), antelope (nilgai), buffalo, wild boar, monkeys, fowl,
tortoises, frogs, lynx, birds, jackals, bear, badgers and fish.”
So plans like multiplying these above said animal populase and reintroducing in to tiger habitate might provide them a better chance of food
source and reduce competetion among tigers and enable them to multiply.This would also provide a good employment opportunity for some
farmers and a study source for forest officials and animals biologist.
Stop destroying forest area for Urbanisation. But enforce a move to maximize the forest area.
Some steps like allocating budject from govt. Fund raicing from all over nation by various sources to meet any coste by implimenting above
strategies.
Tiger is the most magnificent animal on earth and it is our rightful duty to protect them from us. For we humans are the biggest threat for them. We are encroaching on their habitat, killing them for our unnecessary requirements. We should unite against tiger poaching and force the government to bring in strict laws to bring the poachers to justice. Nobody has the right to take a life which god has gifted even for animals. If a human is killed law gives strict punishment then why not when a protected animal is killed can we punish the same way.
the central govt and the concerned authorities should wake up.make it a fool proof system.tighten the boundaries of all the national parks and tiger reserves.the forest department should keep an eye on small villages and hamlets so that there are no illegal channels of poaching.
stop deforestation by climatic variations and human activites . stop all illegal commercial establishments on farm lands and agricultural lands such as resorts in and around the national parks ,as it disturbs the tiger roaming corridors.keep a close check on the tiger roaming corridors .
it is sad indeed, just 1411 of our national animal are remaining in the wild!!! … please do something, save one of gods most beautiful creation THE TIGER. Wake up friends if not done anything now, we might loose it forever.
It is our environment ,it is quite disheartening that “”just 1411 tigers are left..” let ’s all protect our national animal
It has to be an IDIOT who can damage the National symbol …..
And shame on the political parties .. they can only rally about Rahul Gandhi not visiting Mumbai or Shahrukh Khan’s movie not being released .. What about the Nation’s Symbol — They don’t care about that … Its a Shame ….
The most pathetic in this case are the officers of the National Parks who can only sit in office but do nothing to save the assets of the “National Park” — this is INSANITY at a high level ……
Its a real shame to let the National Symbol disappear from the NATION …
Stop this!! the best way to save them is to leave them alone…. stop entering the forests/their territory, not by just creating blogs/advertisements/thru rally…. don’t disturb their habitat….best way of all is to kill hunters who is responsible for the extinct…
Just 1411 left ,in our India and it is so sad to listen these things because it is our national animal.It Should be like 1411000 .Please STOP KILLING THE TIGER. I beleave this animal is the beutiful creature of the earth.So please don’t KILLLLL.