New Delhi, June 29 -- Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav on Sunday inaugurated a national workshop on tiger reintroduction and released three publications on tiger conservation and Project Cheetah in Rajasthan's Alwar district. The event was held to mark 18 years since the reintroduction of tigers at the Sariska Tiger Reserve in the state. Yadav described the Sariska tiger reintroduction programme as a historic milestone in wildlife conservation, noting that the area had no tigers in 2008 and 56 currently. He said the project represents the world's first successful scientific reintroduction of tigers into a landscape where the species were locally extinct. Across the country, the number of tiger reserves has increased from 46 to 58 ...