PARLIAMENT QUESTION: Increase in Tiger Population

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

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PARLIAMENT QUESTION: Increase in Tiger Population

Posted On: 25 NOV 2024 5:22PM by PIB Delhi

The tiger population has increased as per the All India Tiger Estimation done in 2022, with an estimated number of 3682 (range 3167-3925) as compared to the 2018 estimation of 2967 (range 2603-3346) and 2014 estimation of 2226 (range 1945-2491). The tiger population is increasing at a rate of 6% per annum in India when consistently sampled areas are compared. The details of tiger estimation pertaining to tiger landscapes in the country, for the years 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 is at Annexure-I.

The Government of India, through the National Tiger Conservation Authority, has advocated a three pronged strategy to manage human-wildlife negative interactions as follows:-

(i) Material and logistical support: Funding support through the ongoing Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Project Tiger, is provided to tiger reserves for acquiring capacity in terms of infrastructure and material, to deal with tigers dispersing out of source areas. These are solicited by tiger reserves through an Annual Plan of Operation (APO) every year which stems out from an overarching Tiger Conservation Plan (TCP), mandated under Section 38 V of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Inter alia, activities such as payment of ex-gratia and compensation, periodic awareness campaigns to sensitize, guide and advise the general populace on man-animal conflict, dissemination of information through various forms of media, procurement of immobilization equipment, drugs, training and capacity building of forest staff to deal with conflict events are generally solicited.

(ii) Restricting habitat interventions: Based on the carrying capacity of tigers in a tiger reserve, habitat interventions are restricted through an overarching TCP. In case tiger numbers are at carrying capacity levels, it is advised that habitat interventions should be limited so that there is no excessive spill over of wildlife including tigers thereby minimizing man-animal conflict. Further, in buffer areas around tiger reserves, habitat interventions are restricted such that they are sub-optimal vis-à-vis the core/critical tiger habitat areas, judicious enough to facilitate dispersal to other rich habitat areas only.

(iii) Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs): The National Tiger Conservation Authority has issued following three SOPs to deal with human-animal conflict, which are available in public domain:

i. To deal with emergency arising due to straying of tigers in human dominated landscapes

ii. To deal with tiger depredation on livestock

iii. For active management towards rehabilitation of tigers from source areas at the landscape level.

The three SOPs inter alia include the issue of managing dispersing tigers, managing livestock kills so as to reduce conflict as well as relocating tigers from source areas to areas where density of tiger is low, so that conflict in rich source areas does not occur.

Also as per Tiger Conservation Plans need based and site-specific management interventions are undertaken by the tiger reserves for improving the quality of wildlife habitat and funding support for these activities is provided under the Project Tiger Component of the ongoing Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats.

As reported by States, the details of tigers lost due to confirmed unnatural causes (poaching, seizures and unnatural not poaching) during last three years and current year are at Annexure-II.

Annexure-I

Details of tiger estimation pertaining to tiger landscapes in the country, for the years 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 (As per All India Tiger Estimation Reports)

 

State

Tiger Population

 

2006

2010

2014

2018

2022

Shivalik-Gangetic Plain Landscape Complex

Uttarakhand

178

227

340

442

560

Uttar Pradesh

109

118

117

173

205

Bihar

10

8

28

31

54

Shivalik Gangetic

297

353

485

646

819

Central Indian Landscape Complex and Eastern Ghats Landscape Complex

Andhra Pradesh

95

72

68

48

63

Telangana

-

-

-

26

21

Chhattisgarh

26

26

46

19

17

Madhya Pradesh

300

257

308

526

785

Maharashtra

103

169

190

312

444

Odisha

45

32

28

28

20

Rajasthan

32

36

45

69

88

Jharkhand

-

10

3

5

1

Central India

601

601

688

1033

1439

Western Ghats Landscape Complex

Karnataka

290

300

406

524

563

Kerala

46

71

136

190

213

Tamil Nadu

76

163

229

264

306

Goa

-

-

5

3

5

Western Ghats

412

534

776

981

1087

North Eastern Hills and Brahmaputra Flood Plains

Assam

70

143

167

190

229

Arunachal Pradesh

14

-

28

29

9

Mizoram

6

5

3

0

0

Nagaland

-

-

-

0

0

Northern West Bengal

10

-

3

0

2

North East Hills, and Brahmaputra

100

148

201

219

236

Sunderbans

-

70

76

88

101

TOTAL

1411

1706

2226

2967

3682

 

Annexure-II

Details of tiger lost due to confirmed unnatural causes (poaching, seizures and unnatural not poaching) during last three years and current, State-wise

 

State

2021

2022

2023

2024

(as on 20.11.2024)

P

S

UNP

P

S

UNP

P

S

UNP

P

S

UNP

Andhra Pradesh

-

-

1

2

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

Arunachal Pradesh

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Assam

-

-

-

-

-

2

-

3

-

-

-

-

Bihar

-

-

-

-

-

1

1

1

-

-

-

-

Chhattisgarh

-

-

2

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Delhi

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Goa

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Gujarat

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Haryana

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Jharkhand

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Karnataka

-

-

1

3

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Kerala

-

-

-

-

-

3

1

-

1

-

-

-

Madhya Pradesh

3

-

1

5

1

1

5

-

3

1

-

-

Maharashtra

5

-

2

2

-

2

1

-

3

-

-

-

Nagaland

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Odisha

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Rajasthan

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Tamil Nadu

-

-

1

-

-

1

2

-

1

-

-

-

Telangana

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Uttar Pradesh

-

1

2

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Uttarakhand

-

-

1

-

-

1

1

-

1

-

-

-

West Bengal

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Total

8

1

11

12

2

11

12

4

9

1

0

0

P – Poaching

S – Seizure

UNP – Unnatural not poaching

This information was given by Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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