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February 13, 2021 12:53 IST
In separate incidents, two people were killed by tigers in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district of Telangana in a span of just 20 days in November last year. While the tiger population has increased, habitats have diminished leading to more man-animal conflicts, reports Swathi Vadlamudi
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A girl accompanying her mother from work in a field in the Kagaznagar forest area of Kumram Bheem Asifabad district wears a mask given by the Forest Department that is meant to deflect tiger attacks. The masks, to be worn at the back of the head, were a huge success in the Sundarbans, officials say.
India sets record in tiger conservation survey
Meena Janardhan Writer/Editor/Consultant. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of environmental journalism and publishing. Writer/Editor/Consultant. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of environmental journalism and publishing.
12 Jan 2021 India has fulfilled its resolve to double the tiger numbers four years before the 2022 target set at St Petersburg in 2010. The latest Tiger Census, the largest ever done in the world that confirmed that the current tiger population in India has increased to 2967, has entered the Guinness Book of World Records as being the biggest tiger survey ever. The Indian tiger survey – released last year –revealed that India now accounts for about 70% of the world’s tiger population.
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A 60% rise in India’s leopard population has been recorded in 2018, compared to 2014, but there is one area in the country, the northeastern landscape, where its population is facing “major threat” due to land-use changes triggered by agriculture, tea gardens and linear infrastructure projects.
According to the Indian government’s
Status of Leopard in India, 2018 report published on December 21, the northeastern landscape has 141 leopards out of 12,852 estimated across the country while the Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains range has recorded 1,253 leopards, Central India and the Eastern Ghats range has 8,071 leopards and Western Ghats range has 3,386.