India's Tiger Population Rises to 3,682 in 2022 Census

Key facts

• India's tiger population rose from 1,411 in 2006 to 3,682 in 2022, surpassing the international target of doubling tiger numbers by that year.
• Project Tiger was launched in India in 1973, and the article notes that if it had not been launched then, no big spaces would have remained.
• The State of India's Environment report says close to 40 per cent of India's tiger territory overlaps with land where 60 million people live.
• Tigers are moving into weed-choked patches outside protected areas that offer cover but insufficient prey, pushing them toward livestock and sometimes people.
• In the Chandrapur belt of Maharashtra, well over a hundred human deaths from tiger attacks were reported in a single two-year stretch.
• Tiger reserves that produced population growth are now saturated, while space, prey base and corridors have not been scaled in proportion.