Conservation Efforts Have Doubled India's Tiger Population [View all]

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The Royal Bengal Tiger as been classified as an endangered animal by the IUCN.

Approximately three-quarters of the world's tigers now live in India, despite rapidly growing urbanization and human populations. From 2010 to 2022, tigers in India more than doubled from an estimated 1,706 to nearly 3,700.

The improved situation for tiger populations is due to conservation and environmental protection methods safeguarding them from habitat loss and poaching. The researchers believe it offers key lessons for other big cat conservation programs around the world.



"Creating human-free protected areas allowed tigers to establish breeding populations from which they dispersed to occupy multi-use forests," said lead author Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala, a conservationist at the Wildlife Institute of India.

From 2010-2022, India's tiger habitat grew by 30% — about 1,131 square miles annually. Tigers are now spread across 53,359 square miles , an area about the size of England.


Bengal tiger cubs.

Sources:

https://www.dw.com/en/conservation-efforts-double-indias-tiger-population/a-71577773

https://www.sscadda.com/national-animal-of-india/