- Golden tiger now makes foothold in the wild!
Published by -NAWA News Feed- in -Wildlife News- · Sunday 12 Jul 2020
“Golden-Tiger” now makes it’s foothold
in the wild - and she looks great!
As India's 2018 Census makes its entry in the Guinness World Records, the nation is set to embrace more good news about the big cat!
Recently, a golden tiger was spotted again in the Kaziranga National Park, Assam. The photo of the rare tiger was taken by Mayuresh Hendre and shared by Indian Forest Services (IFS) officer Parveen Kaswan. According to Kaswan, this is the only documentation of a golden tiger or the Golden Tabby tiger in the 21st century.
Following the extinction of several animals from the earth, the governments across the world are making a lot of efforts to preserve them. Of many wild animals, the government of India is specially focused on saving the lives of tigers which represents the country as the national animal. The number of tigers in India have also doubled in the last four years.
The Kaziranga golden tiger is believed to be the only Golden Tiger in the country. The tiger does not belong to any other subspecies but has a recessive geme with color variation. A golden tiger also called a golden tabby tiger or strawberry tiger. They are like white tigers or black tigers. It is a color form and not a separate subspecies.
Kaziranga National Park is a protected area in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Spread across the floodplains of the Brahmaputra River, its forests, wetlands and grasslands are home to tigers, elephants and the world’s largest population of Indian one-horned rhinoceroses. Ganges River dolphins swim in the park’s waters. It’s visited by many rare migratory birds, and gray pelicans roost near Kaziranga village.
Meanwhile, India's Tiger Census 2018 even made it to Guinness Book of World Records for being the world's largest camera trapping wildlife survey. It captured 34,858,623 photographs of wildlife in total, out of which 76,651 were of tigers, and 51,777 were leopards; the remainder were other native fauna. (source: Guinness World Records.com)
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted, "The All India Tiger Estimation is now in the Guinness World Records for being the largest camera trap wildlife survey, a great moment indeed and a shining example of Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India)."
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