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Tiger population on road to recovery with annual growth of 6%: GOI
An RTI reply had showed India lost 750 tigers in the last 8 years. 

Jun 06, 2020 08:49 PM

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New Delhi | The Union Environment Ministry on Saturday stated that four surveys since 2006 have shown an average annual growth rate of 6-8% in India's tiger population, offsetting natural losses and keeping their numbers at the habitats-carrying capacity level.

The clarification by the ministry came following a PTI report based on an RTI reply that showed India lost 750 tigers in the last 8 years due to several causes, including natural deaths, poaching, accidents, conflicts and seizures.
The RTI data showed that 369 tigers died of natural causes, 168 due to poaching, 42 due to unnatural causes, like accidents and conflicts, 101 due to seizures of the animal across the country.

"For the period 2012 to 2019, one can observe that despite overall population increase by a thousand, the average tiger deaths per year in the country has been contained below 100, which is balanced out by the annual increment as highlighted by this robust growth rate," said the NTCA. "The National Tiger Conservation Authority maintains the highest standards of transparency so far as making tiger death statistics available to the citizen through its website as well as a dedicated portal, http://www.tigernet.nic.in, so that people can make a logical assessment, if they desire."

Poaching cases have been hovering between 20 to 35 percent of the tiger deaths.

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