Study on Science: ‘Presence doubled in the last 10 years’
There are more and more tigers in India, a country that today hosts three quarters of the entire world population of large felines, with 3,680 out of the global total of 5,000 specimens. This was revealed by a study by the magazine “Science”, according to which since the beginning of the 2000s, India has successfully succeeded in the objective of extending the presence of feline at risk of extinction in its territory.
In particular, in the last 10 years, India has seen the number of tigers double, passed from 1,706 in 2010 to 3.682 in 2022, according to the estimates of the National Tiger Conservation Authority. The result is due to an environmental policy that protected them from poachers, she supervised the habitats so that they were available enough to feed them, and has put in place all the possible solutions to minimize the conflict between human communities and predators. Research also states that various tribal communities that live near the national reserves of the tigers have obtained economic benefits thanks to the development of Eccourism.
“It is the current opinion that the housing density is an obstacle to the increase in the population of the tigers”, theorizes Yadvendradev Jhala, senior expert of the Indian National Academy of Sciences of Bangalore and leader of the team that conducted the research. “Our study shows that the most important factor is not the human density as the attitude of people”.
