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India will celebrate 50 years of tiger conservation on Sunday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to announce tiger population numbers at an event in Mysuru in Karnataka. But multiple Indigenous groups allege they are being driven out of their ancestral lands to save the big cats. The flagship conservation program, Project Tiger, has received global accolades for its work protecting the endangered animal. At the same time Indigenous groups are protesting their own evictions and are asking for a say in how their ancestral lands are protected and used. Their Indigenous lands are already being squeezed by climate change, with more frequent forest fires spurred by extreme heat and unpredictable rainfall.
India will celebrate 50 years of tiger conservation on Sunday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to announce tiger population numbers at an event in Mysuru in Karnataka
BENGALURU, India (AP) Just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves in the southern city of Mysuru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to announce Sunday how much the country’s tiger population has recovered since its flagship conservation program began 50 years ago. Protesters, meanwhile, will tell their own stories of how […]