India home to more thatn 70 percent of global tiger population: Centre tells SC
It was stated that the country"s natural ecology is where scientific management of wildlife is carried out, and artificial breeding practices are not encouraged here.
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New Delhi, January 28: The Center informed the Supreme Courton Friday that there is an annual rise of six per cent in the big cat's population, which offsets natural losses. The Center projected the great success of saving tigers from the verge of extinction to today becoming home to 70 per cent of the global population.
According to the St. Petersburg Declaration on tiger protection, India doubled its tiger population in 2018, four years ahead of schedule. The National Tiger Conservation Authority effectively disregarded the prospect of introducing big cat artificial breeding in its affidavit.
It was stated that the country's natural ecology is where scientific management of wildlife is carried out, and artificial breeding practices are not encouraged here.
The results of the quadrennial all-tiger estimation undertaken in 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018 demonstrate the process' great efficacy.
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According to the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, tigers are considered to be in the ‘Endangered’ category. There are 12 regional tiger conservation landscapes (TCLs) in Asia that are home to tigers. Of them, six are global priority TCLs for long-term tiger conservation significance, and they contain more than 70 per cent of the tiger species' genetic diversity worldwide.
What Panthera website says?
"Representing 76% of the global tiger population, South Asia’s tigers are gaining numbers, particularly in India and Nepal, from where new population estimates are expected any day. In Northeast Asia, numbers are relatively stable in Russia and likely increasing along the border with China. Of all regions, however, Southeast Asia’s tigers are faring the worst, with tigers having been lost from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam since the turn of the century," Panthera, an organisation that is devoted exclusively to preserving wild cats, and was part of the study said