India wild tiger census shows population rise
This is the first time that tigers in the Sunderbans have been counted The number of tigers in India's wild has gone up by 20%, the environment and forest ministry says. The latest census puts the population of the big cat at 1,706. There were 1,411 tigers at the last count in 2007. The count included 70 tigers in the Sundarbans tiger reserve, which had not been covered in the last census. India, with more than 45,000 sq km (27,961 miles) of forest area under 39 designated tiger reserves, had 100,000 tigers at the turn of the last century. Since then there has been an alarming decline in numbers with 97% of tigers lost to poaching and shrinking habitats. Today, fewer than 3,500 tigers remain in the wild around the globe with India accounting for more than half of them.
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