International Tiger Day 2021 also know as World Tiger Day has been held on the 29th July every year since 2010 when it was first created at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit.
This was done to raise awareness of the decline of wild tiger numbers, leaving them on the brink of extinction and to encourage the celebration around the important work of Tiger conservation.
In 1973, Project Tiger was started in India which was a unique plan to save tigers on the planet. Since its formative years there were 9 tiger reserves but the Tiger Project coverage has increased to 50.
But according to WWF around 3,900 wild tigers are left in the world. Since the beginning of the 20th century, over 95% of the world's tiger population is lost. It is said that across Asia, the snaring crisis poses a grave threat to wild tigers.
With only around 3,900
left in the wild,
every tiger counts.
WWF biologists are counting the remaining tigers left in the wild by setting a system of camera traps. From dense jungles to snow-capped mountains, tigers are an elusive species - hard to find and hard to track. In order to count and keep an eye on tigers, WWF biologists are setting up camera traps.
WWF biologists have photographed over 500 individual wild tigers, each identified by their unique stripes - like a fingerprint. This is over 15% of the world’s last population estimate of ~3200 tigers. But most wild tigers still need to smile for the camera! Many areas are unsurveyed and some countries don’t have updated tiger numbers. WWF is working to count and protect tigers to achieve the Tx2 global goal. The TX2 goal is a global commitment to double the world's wild tigers by 2022. From a population of perhaps 100,000 a century ago, wild tiger numbers hit an all-time low of as few as 3,200 in 2010. ... *TX2 stands for 'Tigers times two', signalling the goal to double wild tigers.
Some countries regularly count their tigers, others are counting them for the first time. Some have never thoroughly counted and urgently need to do so!
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