Editing Project Tiger (section)

== Management and administration ==
[[File:Tiger Yawning Mudumalai Mar21 DSC01305.jpg|thumb|A [[Bengal tiger]] in [[Mudumalai National Park|Mudumalai tiger reserve]]]]
Project Tiger is headed by an additional director general (ADG) based at [[New Delhi]] with regional offices at [[Bangalore]], [[Guwahati]] and [[Nagpur]].<ref name="PT"/> The wildlife habitats that fall under Project Tiger are categorized into different conservation units: [[Siwalik Hills|Shivalik-Terai]], [[North East India|North East]], [[Sunderbans]], [[Western ghats]], [[Eastern Ghats|Eastern ghats]], [[Central India]] and [[Sariska Tiger Reserve|Sariska]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.india.com/travel/articles/project-tiger-everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-initiative-3232921/|title=Project Tiger: Everything You Need to Know About This Initiative|date=27 February 2020|access-date=1 December 2023|archive-date=22 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322034853/https://www.india.com/travel/articles/project-tiger-everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-initiative-3232921/|url-status=live}}</ref> 

Function under the ambit of Project Tiger include protection of tiger habitats, daily monitoring, facilitating ecological development for local people in the buffer zones, voluntary relocation of people from core/critical tiger habitats and addressing human-wildlife conflicts. As a part of the project, state are provided assistance on curtailing poaching activities such as disseminating information on poachers, assisting in combing forest floor to check for traps and other anti-poaching activities, maintaining tiger database, providing grants and training for deployment of Special Tiger Protection Force.<ref>{{cite web|title=About us, Project Tiger|publisher=National Tiger Conservation Authority|url=https://ntca.gov.in/about-us/#ntca|access-date=1 April 2024|archive-date=5 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405081950/https://ntca.gov.in/about-us/#ntca|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Wireless communication]] systems, [[infrared]] [[thermal camera]]s and [[M-STrIPES|monitoring system]]s have been developed within the tiger reserves to assist in patrol activities.<ref>{{cite web |title="MSTrIPES": Monitoring System for Tigers – Intensive Protection & Ecological Status |publisher=India Environment Portal |year=2010 |url=http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/mstripes-ppt.pdf |work=National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife Institute of India, Zoological Society of London |access-date=8 September 2019 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806135612/http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/mstripes-ppt.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wwfindia.org/?12021/Valmiki-Tiger-Reserve-conducts-training-workshop-on-wildlife-monitoring-using-wireless-technology|title=Valmiki Tiger Reserve conducts training workshop on wildlife monitoring using wireless technology|work=WWF India|date=19 September 2014|access-date=1 December 2023}}</ref>