Environment & Ecologyv2 · 2 versions
Tiger Conservation in India
India holds close to 70% of the wild tigers left on earth - 3,682 of them, spread across 58 tiger reserves - and has begun arguing the case in economic terms: on 2 September 2026 the Union Environment Minister opened a two-day international workshop in New Delhi that treats tiger landscapes as natural capital, and the International Big Cat Alliance signed a financing and capacity-building pact with the Asian Development Bank.
Last updated 2 September 20266 min read
Latest update
Conservation policy has taken an economic turn: on 2 September 2026 Bhupender Yadav opened a two-day IBCA-ADB-NTCA workshop in New Delhi that values tiger landscapes as natural capital, argued that ecology has to be balanced against human needs, and watched IBCA sign a nature-positive financing pact with the Asian Development Bank.
- tiger
- Global Tiger Day
- NTCA
- tiger reserves
- Tx2
- Bhupender Yadav
- wildlife conservation
Read the full living note — free
The complete note in both exam lenses (UPSC analytical / fact capsule), its full version history, and “what changed since you last read” — plus tonight's quiz.
Open in CA·WikiAI-assisted, human-reviewed · sourced from PIB, RBI & ministries · editorial policy
More living notes in Environment & Ecology
- India's Groundwater ResourceAdded the fluorosis programme: what the NPPCF does about excess fluoride, and the multi-stakeholder workshop the health ministry held on National Fluorosis Day, 9 September 2026.
- Delhi-NCR Air Quality & GRAPAdds CAQM's enforcement action against Haryana. At a review meeting on 8 September 2026, chaired by Chairperson Rajesh Verma, the Commission found live video-monitoring links at only 15 of 2,013 registered construction and demolition sites in five Haryana districts, recorded willful non-compliance by the state pollution board and ordered non-complying sites shut. The 1 October limit of 50 mg/Nm3 on industry and the 1 November clean-fuel gate on buses entering Delhi stand as before.
- Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan (NCAP City Rankings)Fills in the programme behind the ranking. NCAP was launched in 2019 in mission mode, and between FY 2019-20 and FY 2025-26 its 130 cities received Rs 16,423.55 crore of performance-linked grants, of which they report spending Rs 11,575.54 crore, or 70.5 percent. India had 1,646 air-quality monitoring stations in 603 cities as of March 2026, with SAMEER publishing AQI for over 292 of them. Road dust and construction account for 40 to 50 percent of PM10 in most NCAP cities. The 2025 round's toppers were Indore, Amravati and Dewas.
- India's Carbon Market (CCTS & GEI Rules)Britain will credit the Indian carbon price. Under the UK's carbon border levy, due to begin in 2027, the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme now counts as an accepted pricing mechanism, so steel, aluminium, fertiliser and cement shipped to Britain can set off what they already paid for carbon at home and are not charged twice for the same emissions. How much relief lands depends on the price actually paid here and on the evidence British rules demand.
- Monsoon 2026, El Nino & Climate SignalsAdds the sowing ledger. All-India kharif area reached 1,086.31 lakh hectares on 4 September 2026, 17.69 lakh hectares under last year and just below the normal 1,104.46. Rice carries almost the entire fall, at 421.82 lakh hectares against 438.19, with Karnataka and Telangana the biggest losers. Pulses and jute & mesta are the only groups ahead of last year; cotton, oilseeds, millets and sugarcane are all slightly down.
- Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) NormsRestructured for faster reading — no factual change.