The recent
tiger census has registered a 30% increase in India’s tiger population in three
years. In 2011 there were 1,706 tigers
and in 2014 there were 2,226. The census
is carried out every three years and in 2008 there were 1,411 so this is great
news for India’s tigers as the numbers are falling in other parts of the
world.
The distribution of tigers of 1.5 years or over is as follows: 408 in Karnataka, 340 in Uttarakhand, 308 in
Madhya Pradesh, 229 in Tamil Nadu, 190 in Maharashtra, 167 in Assam, 136 in
Kerala and 117 in Uttar Pradesh.
