With the help of donors in Canada, WWF-Canada has supported tiger conservation in Nepal since 2013 through population monitoring, habitat improvement, the training of citizen scientists and supporting efforts to reduce human-wildlife conflict. With wildlife populations around the world in decline, they also show us that the successful recovery of a species is possible with the right conservation actions. These incredible results highlight the importance of protecting key tiger habitats and corridors and partnering with the local communities that live alongside tigers. It identified individual adult tigers based on stripe patterns, excluding juveniles and cubs and used cutting edge analytical tools to arrive at robust population estimates. The latest national survey, led by Nepal’s Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation with implementing partner WWF-Nepal and other conservation organizations, was an extensive effort covering 18,920 sq. Four-year periodic population assessments indicated a rise in Nepal’s tiger population to 198 in 2014 and 235 in 2018. Over the last 12 years, tiger numbers in Nepal have steadily climbed. Petersburg Summit in 2010 after the world’s tiger population hit a new low - at the time, there were as few as 3,200, tigers, down from an estimated 100,000 a century ago. Known as Tx2, the goal to double wild tiger numbers by 2022, the Lunar Year of the Tiger, was set by tiger range governments at the St.
With this announcement, Nepal has gone beyond its national target and achieved one of the most ambitious global pledges in the history of conservation. TORONTO, J– Good news this Global Tiger Day: Nepal has more than doubled its wild tiger population from approximately 121 individuals in 2010 to 355 tigers in 2022, according to the results of its latest National Tiger and Prey Survey. Nepal has surpassed its global Tx2 commitment to double wild tiger numbers, according to the results of the National Tiger and Prey Survey released on Global Tiger Day. Login to your WWF-Canada supporter centre.
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