Day by day the population of tigers is getting lesser. From the reports the global population of Tigers is less than 3500 which is worrisome figure. The big cats are not under the forest cover are about 90 percent of territory. There is a fear regarding these big cats that 10 years ago the Tigers may go extinct one day.
Fortunately the population of Tigers has increased when we talk about the past decade in India and Nepal. The number of Tigers could rise to double in the forest cover is remained, this is a news published in the international journal Science Advances has claimed.
A target was set to double the number of tigers by 2022,in a meeting of 13 tiger range countries was held in Russia in 2010. This meeting will continue and the representatives of these 13 countries will meet in New Delhi again in regard of the review and progress of the target will take place.
There are about 76 forest mapped by scientists that have maximum tigers with the help of satellite technology between 2001 and 2014. To shrink this tiger territory involve agricultural expansion and infrastructure development.
According to the study, tigers also “proliferate rapidly where prey and sheltered habitat are abundant, as demonstrated by tiger recovery in Panna National Park, India.” forested habitats that are larger than 30 sq large for survival. To achieve this goal it would need “maintaining the existing habitat, including ecological connectivity among source populations.”
Google Earth Engine and Global Forest are the tools used by researchers to watch and analyze habitat loss to tiger. $750 billion are needed to invest for infrastructure over the next decade. In India and Nepal where it is estimated for rise in population rise in Tigers is observed successful.
Global conservation efforts to protect the tiger population may be fruitioning. Experts believe that the global tiger population might grow by 2022.