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Conservation in India successfully doubled the native population of tigers in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study reveals.<\/p>\n
In 2010, the nations that make up the remaining range countries of the tiger set a target to double the number of wild tigers worldwide\u2014a goal called Tx2<\/a>\u201410 at the St. Petersburg International summit on tiger conservation.<\/p>\n The idea was that by 2022\u2014the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac, the countries across the Indo-Pacific, East and South Asia, and Russia, would have enough time to effectively support tiger conservation.<\/p>\n By 2022, the objective was estimated to have been achieved when measured across the animal\u2019s whole range, but within that achievement were several localized triumphs even more impressive\u2014Nepal<\/a>, but also India, had seen their native populations of tiger double.<\/p>\n Despite being the world\u2019s most populous state, Indian governments were able to make room for tigers across 53,360 square miles. By 2018, India\u2019s native tiger population clawed its way above 3,600. Along with being 75% of the world\u2019s tiger population, it was twice as many as the best estimates guessed in 2006.<\/p>\n Published in a study in Science recently, extensive monitoring of the big cat across 20 Indian states every 4 years revealed this increase in the number of tigers, but also the amount of protected-tiger habitat.<\/p>\n As well as there being twice as many tigers since 2006, there is 30% more habitat where they live. The study presents findings that tigers do better in areas of higher economic development where locals and visitors can afford tiger-tourism and governments compensate for tiger-related losses. In contrast, poorer states see increases of human-tiger conflict that make it difficult for the world\u2019s largest cat to endure.<\/p>\n TIGER TIMES: \u2018The Javan tiger still exists\u2019 \u2013 DNA Found May Herald an \u2018Extinct Species\u2019 Comeback<\/a><\/p>\n Sharing land with the growing Indian population is increasingly difficult for both man and tiger, but conflict isn\u2019t as common as you might think.<\/p>\n \u201cWe lose 35 people to tiger attacks every year, 150 to leopards, and the same number to wild pigs. Additionally, 50,000 people die from snake bites,\u201d Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala, the study\u2019s lead author, told the BBC.<\/a> \u201cIn fact, within tiger reserves, you\u2019re more likely to die from a car accident than from a tiger attack.\u201d<\/p>\n TIGERS TIMES TWO:\u00a0 Amur Tigers Are Back From the Brink in China \u2013 Thanks to Government Policies<\/a><\/p>\n The WWF, which was very involved with the Tx2 goal, published an article late last year entitled \u201c5 reasons for hope for Tigers in 2025, detailing how the cats were spreading naturally into the forests of northern Thailand, northeast China, and northern Myanmar, as well as the extensive preparations made by Kazakhstan for the reintroduction of the tiger in the south of that country<\/a> where it has been extinct for over a century.<\/p>\n