Category: Animal Conservation

The need for a new conservation agenda focusing on coexistence between tigers and local communities. It emphasizes the importance of investing in the lands surrounding tiger reserves, providing benefits to local communities, and ensuring their participation in conservation efforts. The author stresses the need to shift away from the traditional approach of exclusion and fortification of tiger reserves, leading to conflict between animals and local communities. To reinvent tiger conservation, there must be a recognition that conservation efforts must be inclusive and consider the needs and perspectives of local communities....