From the signing of Saint Petersburg declaration by 13 tiger range countries from 2010 to 2020. It is estimated that the world had lost around 97% of wild tigers in the last 100 years and currently, only 3,000 tigers are left alive across the world. 
The approach of this initiative was the Tx2 approach looks at doubling the number of tigers in the wild, rather than just saving the animal in each of the countries in which it is present.
Is this approach worked?
let's look at an example.
Is this approach worked?
let's look at an example.
Nepal is on track to become the first of the world's countries to double its wild tiger population since 2010. According to results from the country's most recent tiger survey, there are now an estimated 235 wild tigers, nearly twice the number of tigers counted in 2009.
It is believed that in 1900 there were about 100,000 tigers in the world of which possibly as few as 3,890 individuals are surviving today in the wild, according to the 2016 report of WWF. The tradition Shikhar or Big Game has been a major factor behind this.
Colonel Geoffrey Nightingale shot more than 300 tigers in India.
Newly-crowned Rewa kings in Central India thought it auspicious to slay 109 tigers after their coronation.
These are just examples overall 80k big cats were slaughtered between 1875-1925.
Newly-crowned Rewa kings in Central India thought it auspicious to slay 109 tigers after their coronation.
These are just examples overall 80k big cats were slaughtered between 1875-1925.
Thousands of tigers were killed in elaborate hunts by Indian and British nobility before hunting was outlawed by the Indian government in 1971, yeah finally!!!
In 1973, Gandhi launched “Project Tiger,” which still stands as the world’s most comprehensive tiger conservation plan.
In 1973, Gandhi launched “Project Tiger,” which still stands as the world’s most comprehensive tiger conservation plan.
The seizure of 2,200 pounds of tiger bone (from about 80 tigers) in Delhi in August 1993 revealed what was happening after the initiative too that is widely referred to as the second tiger crisis.
Experts started saying Project Tiger had become, as, “a success story went horribly wrong.”
Currently, there are 50[1] tiger reserves in India[2] which are governed by Project Tiger. India accounts for 70% of the total tiger population in the world.
The number of big cats in 2006, was 1,411 and in a recent survey, it is whooping 2967 in 2018.
The number of big cats in 2006, was 1,411 and in a recent survey, it is whooping 2967 in 2018.
Overall, for the first time in conservation history, their numbers are on the increase.
Tiger zinda hai. #TigerDay
Tiger zinda hai. #TigerDay
