How do Bengal tigers help humans?
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How do Bengal tigers help humans?
As a large predator, the tiger plays a key role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. These ecosystems supply both nature and people with fresh water, food, and health. Securing tiger landscapes could help protect at least nine major watersheds, which regulate and provide freshwater for over 800 million people in Asia.
Why tigers are important for humans?
By preying on herbivores, tigers help to keep the balance between the prey animals and the forest vegetation which they feed upon. Tiger landscapes overlap with 9 major watersheds, providing water for over 830 million people in Asia.
What would happen if the Bengal tiger went extinct?
If the feline were to disappear, there would be consequences for all the links of this chain, with the effects even influencing plants and in some areas, people (multiplication of “prey” herbivores, overgrazing, proliferation of some parasites, possible spreading of epidemics, and disappearance of new species…).
How can we help Bengal tigers?
Key strategies:
- Protect tigers and their habitat.
- Build capacity in range states.
- Reduce human-tiger conflict.
- Conduct scientific research on tigers to help inform conservation strategies.
- Promote tiger-friendly policies.
- Monitor tiger numbers, population trends, and threats to tigers and their habitats.
Why are tigers important to India?
Tigers occupy an important place in the Indian culture. Since ages, it has been a symbol of magnificence, power, beauty and fierceness and has been associated with bravery and valor. The tiger also has a significant place in Hindu mythology as the vehicle of Goddess Durga.
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