NTCA Madness
NTCA madness on full display…. By cutting tiger corridors to just 32 outdated “least-cost pathways,” the Indian tiger authority (NTCA) undermines decades of science and its own credibility. This reckless move ignores telemetry data, landscape studies, and the lived reality of tiger dispersal. Tigers don’t consult bureaucratic maps; they follow prey, cover, and instinct. Freezing corridors in 2014 erases scientific progress and plays straight into the hands of mining and infrastructure lobbies.
This is not conservation; it is sabotage. Fragmented reserves without corridors create genetic dead ends, inbreeding, and collapse. A rising headcount inside reserves is meaningless if corridors vanish. NTCA’s credibility crumbles when it bends to convenience over ecology. The result: more conflict, more deaths, fewer tigers.
Civil society must act, because if corridors fail, India will be left with paper tigers — counted, celebrated, but biologically doomed. The mask of success slips. The long game of survival is lost. Read more about tiger corridors.
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Based on Frontline, India.
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