The tiger population in India has
grown up to 2226, it was just 1706 in 2010, the tiger census has revealed. The most conspicuous increase has been
reported from the three southern states - Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and
Karnataka.
With the given numbers, India now
owns the 70% of the global tiger population.
The Environment Minister for
state Prakash Javadekar released the data of the third round of country-wide
tiger assessment today. He told the media men that this increase in the number
of tigers is a huge achievement and should be seen as a fruit of hard labor of
the passionate officials. He said that the increase brings India in a situation
where it can donate tigers to other countries as well.
He also inaugurated the two-day
seminar for chief wildlife wardens of tiger states and field directors of tiger
reserves.
A total of 1540 tigers were shot
by the cameras in around 378,118 sq km of forests area in 18 States. Apart from
the three mentioned states the population has also increased in states like
Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh.
In 2006 the population of the
beast was diminished to a meagre 1411.
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