Editing Project Tiger (section)

== Challenges ==
Project Tiger's efforts are hampered by [[poaching]], [[deforestation]], construction and irregularities in administration of certain reserves.<ref>{{cite web|date=13 June 2019|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/rajasthans-sariska-may-become-tiger-less-again-fear-experts-as-male-relocated-to-reserve-dies-forest-department-sends-sos-to-ntca-6809781.html|title=Rajasthan's Sariska may become tiger-less again|work=Firstpost|access-date=1 December 2023|archive-date=21 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121022935/https://www.firstpost.com/india/rajasthans-sariska-may-become-tiger-less-again-fear-experts-as-male-relocated-to-reserve-dies-forest-department-sends-sos-to-ntca-6809781.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=24 February 2020|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/highway-threatens-tiger-territory-in-arunachal-pradesh/article30896798.ece|title=Highway threatens tiger territory in Arunachal Pradesh|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=1 December 2023|archive-date=7 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607131525/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/highway-threatens-tiger-territory-in-arunachal-pradesh/article30896798.ece|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=Northeast Now|date=12 March 2020|url=https://nenow.in/north-east-news/arunachal-pradesh/arunachal-namdapha-national-park-facing-rampant-deforestation.html|title=Namdapha National Park facing rampant deforestation|access-date=1 December 2023|archive-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201032712/https://nenow.in/north-east-news/arunachal-pradesh/arunachal-namdapha-national-park-facing-rampant-deforestation.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Forest Rights Act]] enacted by the Indian government in 2006 recognizes the rights of forest dwelling communities in the buffer zones. Some of the wildlife experts have questioned the implications of the same on tiger conservation as it will increase human-animal conflict and might give opportunities for poaching.<ref>{{cite news|author=Buncombe, A.|date=31 October 2007|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/the-face-of-a-doomed-species-398373.html|title=The face of a doomed species|work=The Independent|access-date=1 December 2023|archive-date=4 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704130910/https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/the-face-of-a-doomed-species-398373.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NO8xdKRW5EC&pg=PA118|title=An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India: The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal|last=Strahorn|first=Eric A.|date=2009-01-01|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-1-433-10580-7|pages=118}}</ref> While others argue that this overlooks the reality of human-tiger coexistence and the abuse of power by authorities wherein local people who have been co-existing with the animals being evicted from their traditional lands rather than allowing them a proper role in decision-making to aid the tiger crisis.<ref>{{cite report|publisher=Government of India|year=2005|url=http://projecttiger.nic.in/TTF2005/index.html|title=Tiger Task Force Report|access-date=27 March 2009|archive-date=27 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327203407/http://projecttiger.nic.in/TTF2005/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forestrightsact.com/tiger-conservation/item/4-tiger-conservation-a-disaster-in-the-making|title=Campaign for Survival and Dignity ''Tiger Conservation: A Disaster in the Making''|access-date=11 July 2011|work=Forestrightsact.com|archive-date=11 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711020220/http://www.forestrightsact.com/tiger-conservation/item/4-tiger-conservation-a-disaster-in-the-making|url-status=dead}}</ref>