Nepal has nearly tripled its tiger population

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According to official figures, Nepal has nearly tripled the number of free-roaming tigers in just a decade. According to the latest count, there are 355 tigers living in the wild in the Himalayan country, the Nepal National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Agency said at an event to mark World Tiger Day on Friday.

In 2009 there were only 121 tigers. The big cats are in danger of extinction, but according to the WWF Environmental Foundation, their numbers are slowly increasing again worldwide.

World’s largest cat a critically endangered species
“If local communities, governments and conservation organizations work together, the tiger can be saved from extinction,” said Michael Zika, Asia expert at WWF Germany. But: “As happy as we are with the new figures from Nepal, the largest cat in the world remains a critically endangered species.”

With the results now published, Nepal has reached a goal that tiger states in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Russia and China set in St. Petersburg 12 years ago: to double the number of tigers by the Chinese “Year of the Tiger” by 2022 Nepal was the second country to achieve this goal after India, a WWF spokesman said. By far the most tigers lived in India, about 3000 animals.

Nepal counted its tigers in both 2009 and 2022 with 1,000 camera traps in the animals’ habitat using the same counting method over a period of about five months, said tiger expert Chiran Pokharel of Nepal’s National Parks and Species Conservation Authority, which was involved by the latest census.

Source: Krone

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