(IN) UP sets up steering committee to conserve tiger

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I don't want to take names of the high officials and the ministers involved (and

I have it on good authority) in getting the poor stray tigress killed in UP

(along with several deers) which had strayed from the terai area few months back

just before the elections! But if this is the way the UP govt has thought of

conserving the Tigers in the Pilibhit area then God! Save the Tiger!

 

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UP sets up steering committee to oversee tiger conservation

PTI 22 July 2009, 05:39pm IST

 

NEW DELHI: Three years after the National Tiger Conservation Authority proposed

setting up steering committees in states to oversee conservation efforts for the

big cat, the Uttar Pradesh government has constituted the panel which is headed

by chief minister Mayawati.

 

" The UP government has already constituted the Steering Committee, " an NTCA

official said and hoped the step would ensure better management of the

endangered species in its Dudhwa Tiger reserve.

 

The NTCA has already given in-principle approval to the state government to

declare Pilibhit forests having good number of striped cats as a tiger reserve.

 

Apart from the chief minister as the committee's chairman, the forest minister

will be vice-chairman and the principal secretaries of the Forests departments,

Tribal Welfare and Social Welfare departments will be members as stipulated

under the Wildlife Protection Act.

 

Uttar Pradesh is the sixth state which has constituted the steering committee

after Andhra Pradesh, Arunanchal, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.

 

The other tiger-range states are yet to set up the steering panels which have

been proposed to ensure better protection of the big cats whose numbers have

dwindled to 1400, as per Dehradun-based WildlifeInstitute of India (WII).