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The tiger has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1986 and the global tiger population is thought to have continuously declined from an estimated population of 5,000–8,262 tigers in the late 1990s to 3,726–5,578 individuals estimated as of 2022. [1]
The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. It ranks among the largest wild cats alive today. It is estimated to have been present in the Indian subcontinent since the Late Pleistocene for about 12,000 to 16,500 years.
As per Ministry of Environment and Forests, the wild tiger population in India stood at 2,226 in 2014 with an increase of 30.5% since the 2010 estimate. [4] In 2018, according to the National Tiger Conservation Authority, there were an estimated 2,967 wild tigers in existence in India. The wild tiger population increased to 3,682 as of 2022. [5]
While the overall global tiger population increased from around 3,200 in 2010 to an estimated 5,573 in 2023, not all conservation efforts in the past few decades have been equal.
The tiger population in the country’s Western Forest Complex (WEFCOM) — an 18,000-square-kilometer (6,950-square-mile) area of forest encompassing 11 national parks and six wildlife ...
Story at a glance The number of tigers in the wild has risen by 40 percent since 2015. Better monitoring in host countries has helped scientists locate more animals. Tigers continue to be ...
The trend for rising population of tigers in India is as follows: In the year 2006 - 1411; In the year 2010 - 1706; In the year 2014 - 2226; In the year 2019 - 2967; In the year 2023 - 3167 [16] In April 2023, the Prime Minister expressed happiness that India is home to 75% of the world's tiger population in the 75th year of Indian independence.
TX2 (Tiger times 2) goal is the global commitment driven by World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund, WWF) and undertaken by 13 range governments at the St Petersburg Tiger Summit (2010) to double the global tiger population in the wild by 2022 by giving priority, effort, innovation and investment for the recovery of tiger ...