There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated

[Stevicus]

There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated : NPR

They're still an endangered species, but maybe there's some hope.

It's the Year of the Tiger, and a new population assessment offers some hope for the endangered species.

An estimated 3,726 to 5,578 tigers currently live in the wild worldwide — up 40% from 2015, according to a new tiger assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

But much of the increase is because of improvements in monitoring the animals.

"A fairly significant chunk of that 40% increase is explained by the fact that we're better at counting them, that many governments in particular have really sort of moved heaven and earth to do massive scale surveys," Luke Hunter, executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) big cat program, told NPR.

The WCS is a nonprofit that has worked in roughly 60 countries across the world to save wildlife and wild places.

Besides better counting methods, Hunter also attributes the higher tiger numbers to an increase in conservation efforts by governments in the countries where they live.

Tigers are still considered endangered and remain on the IUCN's Red List, which assesses endangered species.

Tigers continue to decline in many parts of the world and have lost an enormous amount of their range because of poaching, habitat loss and other human-driven factors.

Tigers are considered highly valuable within the illegal wildlife trade, which has become a massive, global industry, according to Hunter.

Although tigers represent just one of many endangered species, efforts to conserve them can benefit the areas and people within these communities, he says.

"When you succeed in saving tigers or conserving tigers, you are conserving very large wilderness landscapes, with a huge host of biodiversity but also a whole bunch of benefits to the human communities that live in and around those landscapes," he said.

Hunter said he believes these types of assessments show that conservation interventions can work and tigers can start to recover.

"Expanding and connecting protected areas, ensuring they are effectively managed, and working with local communities living in and around tiger habitats, are critical to protect the species," the IUCN said in a statement.

I hope they can save the tigers, but I wouldn't want one in my backyard.

 

[F1fan]

The stripes on your tabby cat are the same genes that gives tigers stripes. So we are that close.

 

[Aupmanyav]

India has 2,967 tigers, i.e., 70% of the world tigers; and 674 Asiatic lions, 3,700 one-horned Indian rhinos, 12,852 leopards, 27,662 elephants.
We are introducing Cheetahs from Namibia. Let us see if the experiment succeeds.

 

[RestlessSoul]

There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated : NPR

They're still an endangered species, but maybe there's some hope.









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I hope they can save the tigers, but I wouldn't want one in my backyard.

Dunno, might keep the bears away

 

[Stevicus]

Dunno, might keep the bears away

Yeah, it might. But then, keeping that litter box clean would be a full-time job.

 

[Secret Chief]

Yeah, it might. But then, keeping that litter box clean would be a full-time job.

In this house it already is!

 

[Secret Chief]

There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated : NPR

They're still an endangered species, but maybe there's some hope.


I hope they can save the tigers, but I wouldn't want one in my backyard.

This is me giving a big boy some meds in a piece of liver.

 

[pearl]

I wonder which is the greatest threat to them and other wildlife such as the elephants, the climate or man, I assume its the latter.

 

[Secret Chief]

I wonder which is the greatest threat to them and other wildlife such as the elephants, the climate or man, I assume its the latter.

The climate threat being caused by man.

 

[pearl]

The climate threat being caused by man.

Yes, but I was thinking more of game hunters and the life of the animal but a prize.

 

[Secret Chief]

Yes, but I was thinking more of game hunters and the life of the animal but a prize.

Ah yes, the scum.

 

[Secret Chief]

Mostly better counting then, and still a tragically low number.

 

[Aupmanyav]

India

 

[Stevicus]

I wonder which is the greatest threat to them and other wildlife such as the elephants, the climate or man, I assume its the latter.

I'm sure man is the main cause. Not just with poaching, but the article mentioned that the tigers' natural habitat has shrunk due to human encroachments.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Wonderful news. I hope there's never a day that tigers don't exist. I liked this article from earlier in the year: Photographer Captures Rare Glimpse of Siberian Tiger in Its Natural Environment

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Wonderful news. I hope there's never a day that tigers don't exist. I liked this article from earlier in the year: Photographer Captures Rare Glimpse of Siberian Tiger in Its Natural Environment

That tiger picture is gorgeous.

 

[Brickjectivity]

India has 2967 tigers, i.e., 70% of the world tigers; and 674 Asiatic lions, 12,852 leopards, 27,662 elephants.
We are introducing Cheetahs from Namibia. Let us see if the experiment succeeds.

May tigers thrive in numbers and live far away from me! Thank you, India, for being so reasonable!

 

[Brickjectivity]

That tiger picture is gorgeous.

Art I think.

 

[nPeace]

There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated : NPR

They're still an endangered species, but maybe there's some hope.

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I hope they can save the tigers, but I wouldn't want one in my backyard.

If only they had listened to me, they would know this. Not only about the tigers, but more than half the kinds of animals still in existence, they don't know about.

 

[Aupmanyav]

May tigers thrive in numbers and live far away from me! Thank you, India, for being so reasonable!

Corbett National Park, which has the highest number of Tigers in India (215) sits next to Ramnagar City in Uttar Pradesh (pop. 100,000). Turn left from the main city street - and you are in the tiger domain.

Aamdanda Gate, Bijrani Range, Ramnagar, Uttar Pradsh