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- Balancing the population of predators and prey was a key factor enabling a 50% surge in Madhya Pradesh’s tiger population.
- It is helping the State snag the top spot in the 2022 census of the big cat.
- The project translocating African cheetahs to the Kuno National Park in the State has taken a beating, with six of the animals dying.
- An update to the 2022 tiger census publicised last week reported a count of 3,682 nationally.
- Madhya Pradesh, for the second time in the past three censuses, reporting the highest number at 785.
- The State has reported a 50% rise in the number of tigers since the previous census.
- It was a jump exceeded only by Bihar, which has a much fewer 54 tigers.
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