Former beauty queen Dia Mirza, who has voiced her concern about the environment on several occasions, has involved herself closely with the 'Save Our Tigers' campaign, backed by NDTV and Aircel.
On World Tiger Day, Dia was here to celebrate the increase in the tiger population in the country. She says she was persistent in asking Bittu Sahgal, founding Editor of environmental news magazine Sanctuary Asia, to give her a bigger role in saving tigers.
"It was a few years ago when Aircel launched the campaign 'Save our Tigers' on NDTV that I became familiar with the work of people like Bittu Sahgal. What was a childhood passion, kind of resurfaced and I plagued Bittu Sahgal to give me a bigger role and make me more involved with the work that needs to be done," Dia said while talking about her involvement with the campaign.
"Now I do school visits and forest visits with 'Kids For Tigers'...there is a lot of work happening now in creating communication tools to spread this message further -- to take it not just to school children, but also to industries, corporates, media and help people understand that it's not just about saving the tiger, but tiger is a metaphor for saving all life," she added.
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