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- For the first time in a decade and a half, more than 3,000 tigers are living in the wild in India.
- According to a census released today, 3,167 tigers have been recorded in the wild across the country.
- This represents an increase of 200 animals compared to the previous census of 2019.
In previous decades, however, the Indian tiger population was many times larger. India is the country with by far the most tigers in the world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at an event in the south of the country that 75 percent of the tigers counted worldwide live in India.
Legend:
A Bengal tiger photographed in 2014 in the Sunderban Delta, about 130 kilometers south of Kolkata.
KEYSTONE/JOYDIP KUNDU
The count that has now been published is a “proud moment” for his country and a success for the whole world. The growth rate, meanwhile, has slowed from 30 percent in the previous four-year period to 7 percent.
Population still vanishingly small
In addition, the population is still negligibly small compared to previous decades. According to estimates, in 1900 there were still 100,000 tigers around the world. The number has fallen by more than 93 percent in the past 100 years, and tigers still live in the wild in only 13 countries.
At the time of India’s independence from Britain in 1947, an estimated 40,000 tigers were still alive. In 2010, India and the 12 other countries where tigers live in the wild signed an agreement aiming to double the number of these wild cats by 2022.
SRF 4 News, April 9, 2023, 3 p.m.; agencies/schm; lin
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