Finally some good news for tigers
Tiger numbers rebound
This week also marks Global Tiger Day
and here they seem to be bending the curve. Wild tiger numbers are increasing in five countries.
In India - in a recovery the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called an "astonishing success" - the estimate of tigers in the wild more than doubled between 2006 and 2018.
In Nepal, numbers have nearly doubled since 2009.
In the Royal Manas National Park in Bhutan, they more than doubled from 2010 to 2018.
And in China and the Russian Far East, tiger populations are increasing and dispersing into new areas, the NGO said.
Elsewhere, conservation group Panthera captured just-released footage of tigers from a forest in western Thailand, where the endangered animals have not been seen for years.
"From an historic population low in 2010, tigers are finally making a remarkable comeback in much of South Asia, Russia and China," said Stuart Chapman, leader of WWF's Tigers Alive Initiative. "And that's great news for the other threatened species they share their home with, and also the millions of people dependent on these ecosystems." The importance of tiger conservation is evident in that Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia have already lost their total tiger populations, while Myanmar is thought to have just 23 individuals left. And all tigers are under intense pressure from the illegal wildlife trade, especially in China.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/wildlife-revival-conservation-wins-tigers-gorillas-200729134821703.html