25 May 2020



Nagpur: Even after a delay of 10 months, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory body under MoEFCC (ministry of environment, forest and climate change) monitoring all tiger reserves in the country, has failed to release final All-India Tiger Estimation (AITE) 2018 report.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi released ‘Status of tiger in India-2018’ report on July 28, 2019 (World Tiger Day), NTCA-WII had promised to release the final report in a month with figures of individual tiger reserves and clusters.

“If the NTCA-WII did not have figures of individual tiger reserves, then how did it arrive at the figure of 2,967 tigers in the country as per AITE-2018, an increase by 33% from 2,226 tigers in 2014,” say wildlife experts and independent scientists.

On December 17, TOI reported how doubts were being raised over the increase in number of tigers and time was being taken to revamp the report to substantiate its own figures.

The NTCA conducts tiger estimation every four years. In 2014, the preliminary (summary) report was released on January 20, 2015, and final report was quietly released in March. 

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