Secret to India’s tiger comeback: Big cats successfully coexist with 60 million people, finds study
1 Feb 25
Tigers
in India occupied 30 per cent more area between 2006 and 2018 and they
shared space with about 6 crore people in 45% of tiger-occupied
habitats, new research published in Science journal said on Friday.
The study, which focussed on evaluating trends in tiger occupancy in
the context of socio-economic and political factors, said that
people-free, as well as shared spaces, were necessary for sustaining
the recovery of tigers in India.
The paper was authored by senior wildlife scientist Yadvendradev V Jhala and co-authored by Ninad Mungi
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