Union Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated a national workshop on tiger re-introduction at Alwar, Rajasthan, focusing on Sariska Tiger Reserve — where tigers had gone locally extinct by 2004 and were later reintroduced from Ranthambore. The workshop brought together wildlife managers, scientists, and policymakers to refine protocols for future reintroduction efforts under Project Tiger. India currently hosts over 3,600 tigers, the highest count globally, making robust reintroduction science critical to sustaining this conservation success.

Tiger re-introduction is a structured conservation intervention under which individual tigers are translocated from source populations to reserves where the species has become locally extinct. Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan became the world's first tiger reserve to successfully execute wild-to-wild tiger translocation: after poaching wiped out its entire tiger population by 2004, tigers were moved from Ranthambhore beginning in 2008 under Project Tiger, which operates under the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).

The NTCA was established under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, after an amendment in 2006, giving it statutory authority over tiger reserves. India's tiger reserves are governed by a two-zone system — Core (Critical Tiger Habitat) and Buffer — mandated under the same Act.

The workshop at Alwar is significant because it signals the government's intent to formalize Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for reintroduction across other potential sites. The nodal ministry is the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).

India's 2022 tiger census recorded 3,167 tigers; more recent estimates place the figure above 3,600 — roughly 75% of the world's wild tiger population. This positions India as the anchor of global tiger conservation under the Tx2 goal (doubling wild tigers by 2022), set at the St. Petersburg Tiger Summit, 2010. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) lists tigers under Appendix I, providing the highest level of trade protection.