Tiger census

摘要

Heartening news for endangered big cats: India's tiger population has risen by around 16% in the past four years, according to a 2010 census whose results were reported at a conference in New Delhi on 28 March. The government-funded Project Tiger programme estimated the tiger population last year at 1,706 (±9%). Even excluding 70 tigers seen in areas that had not been surveyed before, this is an improvement on the same programme's estimate of 1,411 tigers (+17%) in 2006. Around half of the world's tigers are thought to live in India.