Project tiger: 50 years of tiger conservation in India

Prime Minister released the latest tiger numbers at a mega event organised in Mysuru to mark the completion of 50 years of ‘Project Tiger’. According to the data, the tiger population in the country increased from 2,967 in 2018 to 3,167 in 2022. The tiger population has gone up in the Shivalik Hills-Gangetic Plains landscape, central India and the Sundarbans, but their numbers have dwindled in the Western Ghats and the Northeast-Brahmaputra Plains due to habitat loss, fragmentation and poaching over the years. The country is home to more than 70 per cent of the world’s wild tiger population.