India’s tiger population jumped 30% in four years,
estimates show 2,226 tigers roamed forest reserves in the country in 2014, up sharply from 1,706 in 2010. With this, India has around 70% of the world.
Starting from nine (9) reserves in 1973-2016 the number is grown up to fifty (50). A total area of 71027.10 km2 is covered by these project tiger areas.
covered six major landscapes – the Shivalik-Gangetic Plains, Central India and the Eastern Ghats, the Western Ghats, North-Eastern India and the Sunderbans.
“The population has also stabilised in the Sunderbans with 76 tiger estimated,” the highest tiger density was found in Uttarakhand’S Corbett National Park in and Assam’s Kaziranga National Park.
NTCA- National tiger Conservation Authority
Till July 29, International Tiger Day, in 2017, 62 tigers died of natural or unnatural causes, and 14 cases of seizure of body parts had been reported from across the country by the official database of the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
Twenty-nine, or 46%, of the deaths, occurred outside tiger reserves. The remaining 33 deaths are inside the reserves. In 2016, of the 100 deaths, 37 occurred outside the reserves. An increase in the deaths recorded outside the reserves poses a question on the tiger conservation.