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[Shardul]

@Pckts,

That article by Dr. Karanth says 3000 for the whole world, not India. India has 2226 tigers as per the 2015 census, which is 70% of 3000.

The last time the 3000 figure was used for Indian tigers was in early 2000s. At that time, the world wide population estimates were pegged at 5000, out of which 60% were supposed to be in India. No one knows how reliable those figures were, but they were widely quoted then and often questioned. Thats when sundarbans were believed to have more than 400 tigers, the largest single population in the world. Out of these 200 were supposed to be in Indian side and the rest in bangladeshi side.

The new methodology came into place in the 2007 census and onwards. It calculated 1411 tigers, of which only 70 were in sunderbans (India side). Then in 2011, its was 1706 and in 2015, 2226. Reply