New Delhi: International Tiger Day is a world celebration to elevate consciousness for tiger conservation and is held yearly on July 29. Actress Dia Mirza has planted over 8313 timber in tiger habitats together with Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, Ramtek in Maharashtra and Sundarbans National Park in West Bengal.
In 2016, she additionally directed and produced # KidsForTigers, a Public Service movie on International Tiger Day, to contain the long run era in conservation initiatives.
Dia says, “We need to do more than just exchange platitudes about this magnificent and endangered big cat because its habitats continue to shrink and the global tiger population seems to be in perpetual decline. It is heartening that in India, the tiger population has grown but because of human-animal conflict, this success story is at peril. We do not seem to understand that continuous threats to wildlife habitats will undermine any conservation work for tigers. This year’s theme, “Their survival is in our hands” couldn’t be more related. It is time to be a part of the answer and truly save our nationwide animal and to perceive that we can’t save the tiger with out saving our various forests. Without defending biodiversity starting from tigers to termites, butterflies to bears, we can’t, ultimately, defend ourselves as a race.”
Dia Mirza has been a vocal advocate for wildlife and the setting for many years. Be it adopting two leopard cubs in 2010, talking up for snow leopards or main the motion in opposition to single-use plastics to defend marine life, she has tried to shift perceptions and unfold consciousness about points that do not get sufficient consideration.
She says, “Obstruction of forest corridors, incessant mining activities, rampant deforestation are making it impossible for tigers to co-exist with humankind. That is why I work with tireless change-makers like Bittu Sehgal who has founded Sanctuary Nature Foundation, a nonprofit conservation organization that, among other things, also does habitat management.” In 2013, Dia additionally labored with the Sanctuary Nature Foundation to spearhead the ‘Leave Me Alone’ marketing campaign to underscore the significance of not intruding into wildlife habitats.
In compliance together with her eco-sensitive ideology, Dia additionally eschews the apply of giving meaningless presents and as a substitute of vegetation timber by way of social organisation Grow-Trees.com.
“ Tiger is an apex predator and a metaphor for all Nature and for that purpose amongst many others, we should safe our forests and make sure that animal corridors between habitats will not be disconnected. Let us please additionally do not forget that tiger forests are the birthing grounds for over 300 rivers in India and so their safety is linked to our survival. Protecting our forests and growing our inexperienced cowl additionally occurs to be our greatest hope to counter the worst impacts of local weather change and make sure the well-being of our kids. We need to depart our self-sustaining ecosystems alone and keep in mind what Kailash Sankhala, the primary director of Project Tiger had stated in 1973, “Do nearly nothing within the tiger’s forests and permit subsequent to nothing to be completed and the tiger will save itself,” she stated.
Let us as a substitute create a far-reaching infrastructure constituting forest guards, scientists and defence groups that may defend this magnificent being from poachers, miners, dam-builders.
