The population of wild tigers in indiathe country that is home to the largest number of these cats in the world has passed the 3,000 mark, according to a official census published on Sunday.
India represented 3,167 tigers in the wild compared to 2,967 recorded in the last report published four years ago.
The new census data reveals an increase in the number of specimens and shows that the efforts to protect this endangered species have borne fruit.
The largest of the cats lived throughout Central, East and South Asia, but its population decreased by more than 93% in the last 100 yearsdue to deforestation, human intrusion into its natural habitat, and poaching.
Tigers are now present in just 13 countries, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
India hosts the 75% of copiesunderlined the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, during a ceremony in Mysore, in the south of the country.
In 1900, more than 100,000 tigers They roamed the planet. But that figure dropped to 3,200 in 2010.
In India, the tiger population was 40,000 in 1947at the time of its independence.
But the number plummeted for decades until it reached 3,700 specimens in 2002 and 1,411 around 2006.
Since then, the number of tigers has gradually increased.
THE censuses are carried out every four years with the help of cameras and computer systems to identify each specimen.
Source: Clarin
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