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India now home to 3682 Tigers


The much-awaited numbers are out now. The Ministry of Environment & Forests released the all-India Tiger Estimation Report for 2022.  As per this estimation report, Indian forests are home to 3682 wild tigers an increase of roughly 700 tigers since the last estimation in 2018, which estimated the tiger count as 2967.  Please note that 3682 is an estimation based on the low and high ranges (3167-3925). Experts say we could easily have close to 4,000 tigers in India within and outside the protected areas.

India now accounts for 75% of the World's wild Tiger Population, in line with our commitment made during the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in 2010. All thirteen Tiger Range countries (countries where tigers roam freely in the wild) had committed to double their tiger numbers by 2022. As per the 2010 estimation we had 1706 big cats in Indian forests and now we have more than double of tiger numbers in 2010.

Madhya Pradesh with 6 Tiger reserves- Kanha Tiger Reserve, Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Panna Tiger Reserve, Pench Tiger Reserve, Satpura and Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserves continues to be India's 'Tiger State' with 785 tigers followed by Karnataka and Uttarakhand with 563 and 560 tigers respectively.  Most of the tiger states have reported an increase in Tiger population except Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Arunachal Pradesh reporting a decline in tiger numbers over previous years. 

This massive exercise was completed with the help of 32588 camera traps installed over 641,450 sq km forest area utilising 641102 man-days.  India now has 54 tiger reserves across the country but a sizeable population of tigers exist outside the protected areas as well. 


                                            Estimated tiger numbers in each landscape from 2006 to 2022
State                                        Tiger Population
2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains Landscape
Bihar 10 8 28 31 54
Uttarakhand 178 227 340 442 560
Uttar Pradesh 109 118 117 173 205
Shivalik- Gangetic 297 353 485 646 819**
Central Indian Landscape and Eastern Ghats
Andhra Pradesh 95 72 68 48 63
Telangana - - - 26 21
Chhattisgarh 26 26 46 19 17
Jharkhand   10 3* 5 1*
Madhya Pradesh 300 257 308 526 785
Maharashtra 103 168 190 312 444
Odisha 45 32 28 28 20
Rajasthan 32 36 45 69 88
Central India & Eastern Ghats 601 601 688 1,033 1439
Western Ghats Landscape
Goa - - 5* 3 5
Karnataka 290 300 406 524 563
Kerala 46 71 136 190 213
Tamil Nadu 76 163 229 264 306
Western Ghats 402 534 776 981 1087
North East Hills and Brahmaputra Plains Landscape
Arunachal 14   28 29 9
Assam 70 143 167 190 227
Mizoram 6 5 3* 0 0
Nagaland - - - 0 0
Northern West Bengal 10 - 3* 0 2
North East Hills, and Brahmaputra 100 148 201 219 236
Sundarbans   70 76 88 101
TOTAL 1,411
(1,165-1,657)
1,706
(1,507-1,896)
2,226
(1,945-2,491)
2,967
(2,603-3,346)
3682
(3167-3925)

Posted by: Anurag Sharma

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