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29 Jul, 12 tweets, 3 min read

Thread on #Tigers - a quick read

July29 - #InternationalTigerDay - to raise awareness about the dwindling number of Tigers & to encourage tiger conservation. It was created in 2010 at Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia.

What is this 'Tiger Summit'? Read 👇

In 2010, it came to light that d tiger numbers was an all time low. So the Tiger Range countries gathered at Russia and committed to an ambitious goal of Tx2 i.e to double the wild tigers population by 2022.

What are these Tiger Range Countries??

There are currently 13 tiger range countries- India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Russia, Cambodia, Thailand & Vietnam. India hosts the largest tiger population. (PC WWF)

Is there any other International forum related to Tigers? Yes

Global Tiger Forum (GTF established in 1994) is a partnership between Bhutan, India, Nepal along with WWF inorder to promote worldwide campaign to save the tiger, its prey & its habitat. Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Program-ITHCP is one of its project.

How about India?

Project Tiger started in 1973 with 9 Tiger Reserves. Now we have 51 Tiger reserves - latest addition is Srivilliputhur Meghamalai TR in TN. 70% of the world’s tigers are in India

NTCA was established in 2005 exclusively for Tiger conservation

How is their population estimated?

Apart from the regular wildlife census methods, M-STrIPES (Monitoring System for Tigers - Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) an app based monitoring system is also used to estimate tiger population. It was launched by NTCA in 2010.

How does it function?

Just like our fingerprints, the Tiger stripe pattern is unique to each individual. The stripe color varies from light brown to black. It is not symmetrical on both sides of the body - this is what is captured by M-STrIPES to identify individuals.

So how many tigers we have now?

Wild Tiger population in India shows an increasing trend..
2006 -1411 🐅
2014 - 2226 🐅
2018 - 2967 🐅

India prepares the tiger estimation report every 4 years.

MP has highest number of tigers -526 Karnataka - 524, Uttarakhand - 442.

Finally, why are Tigers important?

" Where tigers thrive, it is a sign that the ecosystem is healthy" is a saying.

As an “umbrella species”, Tiger conservation enables the entire ecosystem conservation - supports several other species, maintains the water regime, the whole forest is healthy and balanced...

They are "Keystone species" too - as an apex predators they keep the prey species under control thereby protects the vegetation. Hence protecting tigers means protecting all other animals, plants &the whole forest ecosytem

Finally, How many species of tiger we have?

India has only Royal Bengal tiger species. These are found primarily in India with smaller populations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China & Myanmar. This is the most numerous of all tiger subspecies with around 3000 nunbers in the wild.

What are the other subspecies of Tigers?

Out of 9 subspecies of Tigers

- 3 subspecies are already extinct- Balinese, Caspian & Javan tigers

- 6 more subspecies which exist till date are Siberian, Royal Bengal, Sumatran, South-China, Indo-chinese and Malayan tigers. Indo Chinese tigers are already extinct in the wild.

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