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Nepal becomes first country to double its tiger population
September 30 , 2018
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- Nepal become 1st country in the world to double its tiger population in a decade as part of World Wildlife Fund for Nature’s (WWF) ‘Tx2’ programme
- ‘Tx2’ programme aims to double number of tigers in the world all over the world by 2022.
- There are now estimated 235 wild tigers in Nepal in comparison to an estimated 121 back in 2009.
- Nepal was the 1st country to achieve global standards in managing tiger conservation areas, an accreditation scheme governed by Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS).
- It was launched by World Wildlife Fund for Nature’s at the 2010 St Petersburg Tiger Summit held in Russia.
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