QUESTION- Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) which has been given the prestigious TX2 award is located in which state ?
(a)TAMIL NADU
(b)KERALA
(c)MADHYA PRADESH
(d)GOA
ANS-a
RELATED FACTS-
- Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) in Erode district has been given the prestigious TX2 award after its tiger numbers doubled to 80 since 2010.
- The awards are presented by the Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS), Fauna and Flora International (FFI), Global Tiger Forum (GTF), IUCN’s Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP), Panthera, UNDP, The Lion’s Share, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and WWF.
- Apart from the STR, the Bardia National Park in Nepal has won this year’s TX2 award for doubling the population of wild tigers.
- Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary was declared a tiger reserve in 2013.
- The reserve is spread across 1,411.60 sq km and is an important link between the Nilgiris and Eastern Ghats landscape.
- In 2019, STR bagged the national award for showing the highest increment in the Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) for registering the growth of over 30% in tiger population.
- Project Tiger:
- IT is a tiger conservation programme launched in April 1973 by the Government of India.
- The initiative is funded by the Union Govt. of India and administrated under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
- National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is the immediate supervising agency.
- It was launched from the Jim Corbett National Park of Uttarakhand.
- INDIA hosts more than 70% of the total Tigers in the world.
By-AKASH SINGH