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- Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (Erode district, Tamil Nadu) has been given the prestigious TX2 award after its tiger numbers doubled to 80 since 2010.
- Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary was declared a tiger reserve in 2013.
- It is an important link between the Nilgiris and Eastern Ghats landscape.
- The Nilgiri biosphere landscape that this reserve is part of is currently the home to the largest tiger population in the world.
- TX2 award acknowledges the efforts by the State governments and the local communities which have played one of the most important roles to turn a relatively new tiger reserve into one of the source populations of tigers in India.
- Apart from the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, the Bardia National Park in Nepal has won this year’s TX2 award for doubling the population of wild tigers.
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