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Numbers of wild tigers doubled over the past 12 years in India
The massive comeback in India reached up to 33% in four years, but, the wild tiger's population growth is not the only number to be considered before we can finally say that the effort preserve them is a success.
Yet, it's huge to see that back in 2018 - when this was last reported - we had 2,967 wild tigers living in India. Those numbers are always getting bigger and, even though it's less than 3k, we must bring to this discussion the fact that when this conservation effort really took shape there were just 1,400 animals accounted for, living in India's wilderness.
The census, which spanned 15 months in 2018-19, is coordinated by an Environment Ministry-funded body, the Wildlife Institute of India.
Unfortunately, living at large is not a correct assumption regarding tigers lives today. The only way to make sure that this effort would work was to have safe conservation areas, that kind of reduced the total area that the tigers would have to roam and grouped them up on some specific spots of the country.
To grant another layer of safety to this effort, ideally, tigers should spread and populate larger areas instead of being kept in large concentrations, which makes them more feasible to reverse this growth trend quickly if they start to die due to diseases or get killed by man.
Anyways, this gives us some hope that mankind maybe finally working on a way to reverse wildlife destruction.
Photo and chart: https://bigthink.com/
Chart: Wildlife Institute of India National Tiger Conservation Authority
Tags: Tiger, India