Bhutan’s Tiger Population
August 3 , 2023
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- India and Bhutan have seen a significant surge in their wild tiger populations.
- Bhutan’s wild tiger population has increased to 131, up 27% since the first systematic survey in 2015.
- India recorded a count of 3,682 tigers, establishing it as the habitat for 75% of the global wild tiger population.
- In Nepal, the population of wild tigers has nearly tripled since 2010 to 355.
- Bangladesh has about 114 tigers, mainly in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, according to the last census conducted in 2018.
- The first all-India tiger census revealed just 1,827 tigers in 1972, down from an estimated 40,000 in the early twentieth century.
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