International Tiger Day 2016 comes up with 22 percent increase in tiger population across the world, according to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Global Tiger Forum report published earlier this year.
This was first celebrated in 2010 and was founded at an international summit that had been called in response to the shocking news that 97% of all wild tigers had disappeared in the last century, with only around 3,000 left alive. Tigers are on the brink of extinction and International World Tiger Day aims to bring attention to this fact and try to halt their decline
The largest tiger population in the world is in India, which has 1,706 of the 3,948 tigers across the globe, primarily in Asia. The increase in number of tigers has happened as causes behind their near extinction, like loss of habitat, poaching and man-animal conflict have been addressed.
INDIAN STATES AND NUMBER OF TIGERS LEFT
This was first celebrated in 2010 and was founded at an international summit that had been called in response to the shocking news that 97% of all wild tigers had disappeared in the last century, with only around 3,000 left alive. Tigers are on the brink of extinction and International World Tiger Day aims to bring attention to this fact and try to halt their decline
The largest tiger population in the world is in India, which has 1,706 of the 3,948 tigers across the globe, primarily in Asia. The increase in number of tigers has happened as causes behind their near extinction, like loss of habitat, poaching and man-animal conflict have been addressed.
INDIAN STATES AND NUMBER OF TIGERS LEFT
- Kerala has recorded total of 136 tigers an the well know Periyar National Park is known to be a tiger reserve.
- Manas National Park in Assam is a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site. This state has a total number of 167 tigers.
- Maharashtra with a total number of 190 tigers is also home to Melghat which is the tiger reserve that comes under Project Tiger in this state.
- Tamil Nadu ranks fourth and has a total number of 229 tigers
- Madhya Pradesh has 308 tigers and also one of their largest national parks- Kanha Tiger Reserve
- Uttarakhand has a total of 340 tigers and is home to one of the oldest national parks in in India
- Karnataka has the highest number of tigers in India, total of 408 tigers. The Bandipur National Park in Karnataka is a tiger reserve that falls under Project Tiger.
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