According to an promulgation by the Nepalese Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation ( DNPWC ) , the country ’s tiger population has rebounded imposingly in the past nine years – an encouraging sign of the zodiac that the ongoing efforts of government office and various non - profit organizations to protect the imperiled cats are paying off .
The uplifting tidings fall after a comprehensive field survey conduct between November 2017 and April 2018 found 235 Bengaltigers in Nepal , up from 121 in 2009 .
" This is a result of concentrated incorporated feat by the politics along with the local biotic community and other stakeholders to protect the tiger ’s habitat and crusade against poaching , " Man Bahadur Khadka , director superior general of DNPWC , tell AFP .
" The challenge now is to continue these efforts to protect their habitats and routine for the prospicient - term survival of the tiger , " he contribute .
Once found throughout the Asiatic continent and several Asian island , Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( Panthera tigris ) have been wipe out of existence in many regions and are endangered in all their remaining pockets of habitat due to human body process , chiefly deforestation for agriculture and urbanization ( more than 40 percent of native Panthera tigris ecosystem have been destroyed in the past 20 twelvemonth alone ) , depletion of prey species , and poaching .
Per theIUCN Red List , tigers have disappeared from Java , Bali , southwestward and central Asia , and from large areas of southeast and eastern Asia over the past 100 years . Currently , tigers inhabit about 7 percent of their former scope , with grounds of facts of life populations in Nepal , Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , Indonesia , Malaysia , Russia , Thailand , and potentially China and Myanmar . It is estimated that there were around 100,000 tigers in the wilderness in the other 1900s ; now there are around 3,200 tiger – a figure that encompasses all subspecies .
Nepal ’s succeeder cater a model of how other nations can fill their assurance to meet the goal of the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF)’sTX2 project . Launched at the WWF ’s 2010 Tiger Summit , TX2 is an challenging inquiry , conservation , and anti - poaching project aimed at double the total tiger universe to 6,000 individuals by 2022 – the next twelvemonth of the Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac . Nepal and 12 other nations within the specie ’ range have committed to the programme .
