Modest triumph
A small but significant triumph for everyone the magnificent tiger at heart: thanks to the increased efforts of the Indian and Thai government takes the tabby in at least two nature reserves in number.
In the Western Ghats
(Karnataka) now live 250 to 300 tigers, four times as many as thirty years ago.
In Panna National Park, where temporary no more tigers were in 2009, tiger
numbers are now back in the double digits. Also in the Thai nature Huai Kha
Kaeng life certainly fifty tigers and the population trend is positive.
However, the current global tiger population of about 3200 wild specimens of
course only a miserable remnant of the hundred thousand striped robbers who
still walked the earth at the beginning of the twentieth century. Tigers
inhabit today the day only six percent of their original habitat, the sad
result of poaching and habitat destruction.
Stronger action
Stronger action
The good results were achieved in India and Thailand, are directly derived from the stricter, more confrontational attitude that governments now
