June 11:The World Bank launched a joint project with conservation groups and Hollywood to protect wild tigers, across the world.The Tiger Conservation Initiative will begin with dialogues with countries with tiger populations to assess financing needs of conservation, identify funding sources and mobilise resources to protect the animals, officials said.
Launching the project at the National Zoo in Washington on 9th June. World Bank President Robert Zoellick said "This is a problem that cannot be handled by individual nations alone. It requires an alliance of strong local commitment backed by deep international support,"
Mr Zoellick said that the bank’s "first" step in the tiger conservation drive was to revive its own internal policy."First, we at the bank are going to initiate a review to our own independent evaluation group of our projects in tiger habitats to learn from the lesson of the past for our future engagement," he added. Courtsey : AIR