Major Wildlife Conservation Initiatives
- Project Tiger: Launched in 1973, for ensuring a viable population of tigers in their natural habitats, protecting from extinction, and preserving areas of biological importance as a natural heritage in designated tiger reserves is an ongoing Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the MoEFCC. NTCA is a statutory body of the Ministry, with an overarching supervisory / coordination role, performing functions as provided in the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
- Project Elephant: Launched in 1992 by MoEFCC to provide financial and technical support to wildlife management efforts by states for their free-ranging populations of wild Asian Elephants.
- Crocodile Conservation Project: Launched in 1975, to protect ....
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