Lets save our national animal, the Tiger

Everywhere there have been talks about the number of tigers left in India is now just 1411, I saw hoardings on the road, ads in the TV, newspaper and various internet sites, this is an astonishing fact and this is for all of us to understand what we are doing to our mother nature. Its not that something big will happen if this number doesn’t increase, mankind has already lost so many animal species that we can’t even count nor it will make any big difference in our day to day lives. We are so busy that if something is not affecting our daily routines we are not concerned about that but I feel this thought has to be changed and every one of us should do something about our natural vegetation also. All of us should be involved in something or other thing to save our environment from getting erased. Although we think that even if the tigers get extinct from India why should we bother as it is not impacting us but if we spend few minutes thinking over this topic we will understand that it definitely impact all of us. Imagine a country where the count of their national animal is 0, isn’t it a shame for all of us as Indians. When we will teach our kids that “Tiger is our national animal” will we be able to show them real tiger… it will be just left in pictures. Not having tigers will have impact on the ecological balance of nature also, no tigers mean more deers and more deers mean more grass and plants required by them for eating and that will result in the erasing of jungles from our land and I don’t think we are ready for that.
Its not that nothing has been done till now but since our independence or may be before that also we are saying that tigers are getting extinct and till now nothing has improved, number is constantly coming down. Govt. has started so many projects for saving tigers but they have not yielded the expected results, so I think there should be some new rules which should be stricter for the poachers who are the main culprit, when a tiger kills a man we call it ‘man-eater’ and then we get a license to kill him publicly but what when a man kills the tiger without any reason then also the law should be more strict in handling that. Although I feel along with Govt. it is the responsibility of each Indian to help in this cause, we all should raise the awareness about this issue.
So many people are joining this tiger saving initiative at www.saveourtigers.com and facebook’s Stripey the Cub so I hope things will improve.