Tigress Sheela with her three new born cubs at Bengal Safari in Siliguri.
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Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar and MoS Babul Supriyo during the release a poster on the eve of International Tiger Day 2020, in New Delh...
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Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar and MoS Babul Supriyo release a book on the eve of International Tiger Day 2020, in New Delhi.
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A tiger wades through a flooded area in search of higher land near Kaziranga National Park, at Baghmari village in Nagaon district.
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A worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit sprays disinfectant near the cage of a tiger during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown at Assam State Zoo, in Guwaha...
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A worker sanitises a royal bengal tiger's enclosure at the Alipore zoo during the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Kolkata.
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In this undated photo is seen Bengal tigeress Dona. Dona passed away on Dec. 29, 2019 at Tata Steel Zoological Park in Jamshedpur.
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A tiger rests in its enclosure at Nahargarh Biological Park, Sisiyawas , in Jaipur
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A combo of three photos shows a tiger trapped between some rocks in a river in Bhadravati tahsil of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. Tiger stuck in a river bed died on Thursday, N...
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A tiger attacking a forest department team caught on camera
Driven by unfathomable poverty and need, the villagers living near the Sundarbans often illegally venture into the forests to fish and catch crabs, becoming easy prey for the big cats.
'It was decided in St. Petersburg that the target of doubling the tiger population would be 2022. We in India completed this target four years early,' PM Modi said.
With an estimated 2,967 tigers as per 2018 census, India has 75 per cent of the global tiger population, and doubled its count four years before its 2022 target.
Once a haven for the Royal Bengal tiger, it had as many as 132 in 2002, the numbers have alarmingly dwindled over the years. At last count, Odisha have only 28 tigers