Tiger Conservation Subject: Environment Context: India is home to the largest population of tigers in the world and increase in the tiger population is a testament to the success of wildlife conservation programmes implemented for nearly 50 years. Content: Tigers were reportedly increasing at a rate of about 6% per annumand the area that they occupied was roughly stable, at about 89,000 square km since 2014. The latest 2018 estimates put the tiger population at 2,967 with more than half of them in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. (Tiger Census conducted once in 4 years) The consistent implementation of Project Tigersince 1973, whereby dedicated tiger reserves […]