TNPSC Thervupettagam

Bhutan’s Tiger Population

August 3 , 2023 352 days 424 0
  • 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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