India is making progress in saving endangered tigers!
A new nationwide survey shows a 20 percent increase in their numbers in the wild over the last five years.
The survey, released Monday by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, put India’s current tiger population at 1,706, compared with 1,411 in 2006.
India is home to about half of the world’s wild tigers. Their numbers had declined sharply for decades, largely because of poaching and the pressures of development encroaching on their natural habitat.
WWF director, Jim Leape said, ├óΓé¼┼ôThese numbers give us hope for the future of tigers in the world.”
Let’s hope the numbers keep going up!
[Image via WENN.]
Mar 29, 2011 08:00am PDT
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