India has been at the forefront of tiger conservation by virtue having the single largest population of free ranging wild tigers in the world. With the objective of fostering international collaboration, co-operation, exchange of best management practices and capacity building, India has entered bilateral instruments and Memorandum of Understanding with Tiger Range Countries.
Some of the initiatives under taken so far are:
1. Capacity building workshops have been carried out with Thailand, Malasiya, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Cambodia in the field of tiger conservation planning.
2. Field visits of Russian, Malaysian, Cambodian and Chinese officials have been conducted in tiger reserves of India for demonstrating tiger conservation practices first hand.
3. Tiger re-introduction experiences have been shared with Cambodia and Russia.
4. Hosted 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference (3 AMC) was organized in New Delhi from 12th to 14th April, 2016.
5. Hosted the 1st and 2nd Stock Taking conferences on tiger conservation in 2012 and 2019 respectively to view progress of Tiger Range countries vis-a-vis the Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP).
Bilateral Insturments
India has signed the following bilateral instruments for collaboration, exchanging best practices , technical know how pertaining to tiger conservation:
1. Protocol on Conservation of the Royal Bengal Tiger of the Sunderban between the Government of India and Government of Bangladesh (Download).
2. Protocol on conservation of the tiger between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Peoples Republic of China (Download).
3. Memorandum of Understanding between the Republic of India and the Union of Myanmar for cooperation on combating timber trafficking and conservation of tigers and other wildlife (Download).
4. A tripartite MoU between the National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife Institute of India and A.N. Severstov Institute of Ecology & Evaluation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, was agreed upon and signed for cooperation in the field of conservation genetics, disease dynamics in wild tigers besides others (Download).
5. Meetings of Indo -Russian sub group on tiger and leopard conservation.
Summary record of 2nd meeting.
Summary record of 3rd meeting.
Summary record of 4th meeting.
Summary record of 6th meeting.
