How many tigers were there in Shivalik, central India & eastern ghats, western ghats, northeast hills & brahmaputra flood plains, the sundarbans in 2019... Plz tell
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India is now home to nearly 3,000 tigers
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India’s efforts at tiger conservation received a major boost with the latest census report showing a heartening increase in numbers. The Status of Tigers in India-2018 report by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, released on Monday showed that the adult tiger population in India currently stands at 2,967. This represents a 33% increase over the 2014 figures which stood at 2,226.
The NTCA in collaboration with the State Forest Departments, Conservation NGOs and coordinated by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), has been conducting a national assessment for the "Status of Tigers, Co-predators, Prey and their Habitat" every four years since 2006
The tiger population of India is the largest for any country, accounting for more than 80% of the global population of 3,159 adult free-ranging tigers. Project Tiger aimed at tiger conservation was initiated in 1973 with nine tiger reserves covering about 18,278 sq. km and has now grown to 50 tiger reserves covering about 72,749 sq. km.
India’s national tiger assessment is the largest biodiversity survey being carried out anywhere in the world. The fourth cycle of of the assessment was undertaken in 2018 and 2019 using latest available scientific and technological tools.
Since tigers occur across varied habitats and a large geographical expanse of India, the tiger bearing habitats were divided into five major landscapes: Shivalik-Gangetic plains; Central India and Eastern Ghats; Western Ghats; North Eastern Hills and Brahmaputra Flood Plains; and the Sundarbans.
Tiger population witnessed an increase across all five regions from 2014 as follows: Shivalik-Gangetic - 485 to 646; Central India and Eastern Ghats - 688 to 1,033; Western Ghats - 776 to 981; North Eastern Hills and Brahmaputra Flood Plains - 201 to 219; and Sundarbans - 76 to 88.