The conservation of tiger or nature is not a drag on development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while addressing the 3rd Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation on Tuesday. He insisted that both can happen in a mutually complementary manner emphasising on the need to reorient the strategy.
Modi said poaching of tigers can be checked when the Governments at the highest level come together to check the menace. “There is a need to consider tigers as our natural capital and to define conservation as a means to achieve development, rather than considering it to be anti-growth. He emphasised the need to “smartly” integrate the tiger and wildlife safeguards in various infrastructures at the landscape level.