In recent years, India has seen a dramatic increase in the number of high-end ecotourism facilities around tiger reserves and an accompanying increase in the numbers of tourists. This has caused a degradation of fragile tiger habitat and last year a local NGO filed a public interest petition to the Supreme Court, aimed at curtailing tourist numbers.
Source: National Tiger Conservation Authority
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that there is to be no tourism in the “core” areas of tiger reserves.
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