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"Tigers are having a good year.
Nepalese officials announced Friday the top predator’s numbers within the
country’s borders have more than doubled in a bit more than a decade. Across
Asia, there are as many as 5,500 tigers prowling jungles and swamps, a leading
wildlife group said last week, a 40 percent jump from its 2015 assessment.
The slow but steady rise in the big cat’s estimated population comes as
biologists get better at tracking the animal and marks a high point amid a
deepening extinction crisis that may see as many as a million plants and animal
species disappear worldwide due to habitat loss and climate change.
Tiger researchers, while optimistic, warn the fierce hunter remains under
threat from both poaching and encroachment into its remaining habitat. And
nations are struggling to reach their collective goal of doubling the
population of wild tigers worldwide between 2010 and 2022, the last two years
assigned to the tiger in the Chinese zodiac.
“It’s a fragile success,” said Dale Miquelle, tiger program coordinator for the
Wildlife Conservation Society. “There are still many pressures on tiger
populations, and they are disappearing from some areas.”
There are anywhere between 3,726 and 5,578 tigers in the wild worldwide today,
according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which
tracks the status of plants and animals facing extinction. It’s a far cry from
the tens of thousands of tigers that once roamed across Asia."
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