Endangered Mammals of India

Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera Tigris Tigris )

  • Distribution: Native to the Indian subcontinent-India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal.
  • Threats: Poaching, habitat loss and fragmentation.

Current Inputs

Tiger Census

  • The four-year tiger census report, ‘Status of Tigers, Co-predators, Prey and their Habitat, 2018’ shows the count of tigers in India, has risen to 2967, in 2018 from 2,226 in 2014.
  • The biggest increase occured in Madhya Pradesh from 308 in 2014 to 526, in Karnataka from 406 to 524, in Uttarakhand from 340 to 442 and in Maharashtra from 190 to 312.
  • Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have recorded ....
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