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Tigers in India constitute more than 70% ... when the tiger shall become practically extinct!" ... 2018 survey found pictures captured in camera-traps ...
As tigers in Asia often live in close proximity to humans, tigers have killed more people than any other big cat species. Between 1876 and 1912, tigers killed 33,247 people in British India. [6] Man-eating tigers have been a recurrent problem in India, especially in Kumaon, Garhwal and the Sundarbans mangrove swamps of Bengal. There, even ...
Project Tiger aims at tiger conservation in specially-constituted tiger reserves, which are representative of various bio-geographical regions in the country. It strives to maintain viable tiger populations in their natural environment. As of 2019, there are 50 tiger reserves in India, covering an area of 37,761 km 2 (14,580 sq mi). [16]
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The subspecies became globally extinct in the wild after the last wild animals were hunted in Poland during World War I, but survived in captivity. [82] It was reintroduced to the Altai in 1982-1984. [71] Arabian oryx: Oryx leucoryx: Arabian Peninsula Extinct in the wild in 1972 and reintroduced in Jiddat al-Harasis, Oman in 1980. [83]
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Tiger poaching in India has seriously impacted the probability of survival of tigers in India. [1] About 3,000 wild tigers now survive compared with 100,000 at the turn of the 20th century. This abrupt decimation in population count was largely due to the slaughter of tigers by colonial and Indian elite, during the British Raj period, and ...
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