Global Tiger Day News
India is the home to the world’s largest tiger population in the wild and boasts an impressive count of 3,167 tigers, as per the last tiger census.
There were eight tiger subspecies at one time, but three became extinct during the 20th century.
July 29 is observed across the world as Global Tiger Day every year to raise awareness about the declining population of the tigers and making efforts to save them from going extinct.
The Global Tiger Day came into existence in 2010 in Russia during the signing of Saint Petersburg declaration by 13 tiger range countries.
The Heads of the Governments of Tiger Range countries had resolved to double tiger numbers across their global range by 2022 by signing the St. Petersburg declaration on tiger conservation
A day ahead of the Global Tiger Day 2020, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday (July 28) released the detailed report of the fourth All India Tiger Estimation- 2018.
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