NARENDRA MODI ASSOCIE LE RENFORCEMENT DES POPULATIONS DE TIGRES ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT. Dans son discours introductif à la 3ème Conférence asiatique sur le tigre, hier, le premier ministre indien a fortement insisté sur l'impératif d'une coopération internationale renforcée. Times of India, hier. PM Modi urges international collaboration for tiger conservation.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-Modi-urges-international-collaboration-for-tiger-conservation/articleshow/51795913.cms?
Making a strong pitch for tiger conservation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday underlined the need for collaboration between governments at the highest level to check trafficking in body parts of the wildcat.
Noting that conservation of tiger or nature is "not a drag" on development, the Prime Minister insisted that both can happen in a mutually and complementary manner and emphasised on the need to reorient the strategy.
Modi said forests are inseparable from wild animals and both are mutually complementary.
"Destruction of one leads to destruction of the other. This is an important cause of climate change which is now affecting us adversely in many ways. This is a global phenomenon which all of us are grappling with," he said.
He was speaking at the inaugural session of the three-day 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation where tiger range countries will discuss key issues including anti-poaching strategies.
Noting that tiger habitats have reduced drastically across tiger range countries, the Prime Minister said the situation has been aggravated by the ongoing trafficking in body parts and derivatives of this magnificient animal.
"A major threat to the tiger is the demand for its body parts. The forest and its wild denizens are an open treasury which cannot be locked up. It is painful to learn about trafficking of body parts of tigers and other big cats. We need to collaborate at the highest levels of governments to address the serious issues.
"In India too we have been facing the challenge of poaching. The positive side for us in India is that the majority of people respect trees, animals, forest rivers. They consider earth as mother and the universe as one family," he said.
The Prime Minister said there is a need to define conservation as a means to achieve development rather than considering it to be "anti-growth".
En lien avec ce qui précède, des compagnies maritimes et aériennes indiennes sont entrées dans un dispositif international de contrôle renforcé du commerce illégal d'animaux sauvages : "Three of the biggest shipping and airline companies in India signed the Buckingham Palace Declaration that binds signatories to 11 commitments aimed at preventing traffickers from exploiting weaknesses in the covert journey of their products from killing field to marketplace. The commitments focus on information sharing, staff training, technological improvements, and resource sharing across companies and organisations worldwide." Extrait de : "Why India must not celebrate the rise in tiger numbers", Hindustan Times, hier.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorials/why-india-must-not-celebrate-the-rise-in-tiger-numbers/story-JFGYML5kXFjFwdqKvrwL6H.html
Plus largement, l'Inde annoncera demain son rattachement au SAWEN (organisme régional de lutte contre les atteintes à la vie sauvage, et qui compte aujourd'hui 7 pays en son sein : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhoutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) et le renforcement significatif des capacités d'action de ce dernier. Times of India, ce jour. "India to join South Asian Nations to curb wildlife crime".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/India-to-join-South-Asian-nations-to-curb-wildlife-crime/articleshow/51815666.cms
Ainsi que : Times of India, ce jour. "Cabinet nod to adopt statute of South Asia wildlife Enforcement Network to check wildlife crimes".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Cabinet-nod-to-adopt-statute-of-South-Asia-Wildlife-Enforcement-Network-to-check-wildlife-crimes/articleshow/51816144.cms
Voir aussi, extrait de l'éditorial de The hindu, ce jour : Keeping tigers in the green zone.
In the future, wild tigers will survive if countries can maintain inviolate core habitats for breeding populations, ensure habitat connectivity for genetic exchange and crack down on poaching of both tigers and prey. There are wildlife reserves in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Assam, West Bengal and Jharkhand where the Environment Ministry wants to improve conditions for tiger breeding. As part of this exercise, Rs.380 crore has been made available to Project Tiger this year. What is conspicuous, however, is the lack of political will to remove industrial pressures on forests. The proposal to widen National Highway 7 in Central India, for instance, has become controversial because of the dreadful impact it would have on tigers in the Kanha-Pench and Kanha-Nagzira corridors in Maharashtra. It is contradictory to talk of protecting source populations which occupy only 6 per cent of the habitat on the one hand, and simultaneously engage in destructive activities in the same forests. Mitigating the damage through benign alternatives is vital. Such green leadership would also make India’s collaboration with other countries in the Global Tiger Forum meaningful, demonstrating to them the unique experience of a populous nation conserving forests and wildlife and providing life-sustaining ecosystem services to all. The Environment Ministry must also view independent scientific organisations as partners, and stop putting up bureaucratic hurdles to research in protected areas. Effective conservation demands transparency.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/keeping-tigers-in-the-green-zone/article8467554.ece
Voir également les deux articles de fond de Vidya Venkat publiés dans The Hindu, ce jour.
Big cat population up by 690.
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/global-tiger-population-up-by-22-per-cent/article8461131.ece
Rising tiger numbers : Expert warn against premature celebration
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/rising-tiger-numbers-experts-warn-against-premature-celebration/article8467582.ece
