International Year of Tiger - 2010

India always on the receiving end of Tiger conservation and protection, has on Saturday announced its decision to draw international attention on the issue by launching 2010 as the “Year of the Tigers’’. The next year on Valentine's Day, the campaign from Jim Corbett National Park will kick off, according to Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. India's offer in this regard was accepted at a meeting held at the prestigious Smithsonian Institute, which was attended by other agencies including the World Bank. "Today India made the offer for launching the Year of the Tiger internationally on February 14, 2010 at Corbett," Ramesh said, adding the Year of Tiger would end in November 2010 with another tiger consultation in Ranthambore National Park.
Ramesh in an interaction with media after the meeting told, "Both these events would showcase what India is doing in the field of tiger conservation." The Russians are hosting the World Tiger Summit in Vladivostok in September 2010. Noting that all these were meant to establish India's leadership, Ramesh said 60 per cent of the tigers in the wild in the world are in India.