Tigers are naturally wide-ranging animals that depend on movement across landscapes. Habitat corridors play a vital role in facilitating these movements and ensuring connectivity between tiger populations. When such corridors are lost or fragmented, human-tiger conflict often increases, with tigers frequently paying the ultimate price.

Recognising that tiger populations are limited by the carrying capacity of individual reserves, this book highlights the importance of linking smaller populations with larger ones through a metapopulation framework. It examines the source-and-sink dynamics that influence tiger survival and emphasises the need for effective mitigation strategies to maintain connectivity across priority tiger landscapes.

The book also explores the concept of green infrastructure, which integrates the natural environment into land-use planning. In the Indian context, this involves creating and sustaining a network of tiger reserves, protected areas, and wildlife corridors that function as interconnected hubs and links. As development expands across multiple jurisdictions, the long-term conservation of tigers depends on safeguarding these critical ecological connections.