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GOOD NEWS ON INTERNATIONAL TIGER DAY – TIGERS HAVE INCRESED IN INDIA

NEW DELHI & RAMNAGAR, Jul. 29, 2023 (TBINN)

The number of tigers in India has increased from 2,967 in 2018 to 3,682 in 2022, an annual rise of six per cent, according to the latest government data released on the International Tiger Day today.

With this, India has become home to approximately 75 per cent of the world’s tiger population, Union Minister of State for Forest, Environment and Climate Change Ashwini Kumar Choubey said in Ramnagar while releasing the data for 2022. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the Status of Tigers 2022 to mark the completion of 50 years of Project Tiger in April, the government said there are at least 3167 tigers in India.

Tiger census is held every four years in the country. There are a maximum of 3925 tigers in the country. The average number is 3,682, a senior official from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (N.T.C.A.) said.

With a 50 per cent increase in the last four years, Madhya Pradesh has the maximum number (785) of tigers in the country, followed by Karnataka (563), Uttarakhand (560) and Maharashtra (444), according to the data.

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