'India has 70% of world's tigers; conservation has improved': Javadekar on Tiger Day eve

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javekar on Tuesday released 4th All India Tiger report on  estimation of tiger population in country on eve of Global Tiger Day. dressing a press conference, Javekar revealed that India accounted for 70% of world's tiger population and 8% of world's biodiversity. 

"We have a large amount of flora and fauna that we are proud of, our effort is to improve environment and biodiversity. We account for 70% of world's tiger population. We are in a leing position and we are rey to work with all 13 tiger range countries. We are working for ir training, capacity building, manment of tiger reserves," he said.

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All 50 tiger sanctuaries in good condition 

During brief, Prakash Javedkar released 'Project Tiger: Securing India's Small Cats' along with posters of 'Smile - Small Wildcats of India' "Conservation of tigers has improved in India. We are working with many countries in tiger conservation," he said. Environment Minister ded that conservation of tigers ensured well being of entire ecosystem. He also said that 50 tiger sanctuaries in India were in good condition. MoS Babul Supriyo was also present during press brief held at National Media Centre. 

'30,000 cameras to assess numbers' 

While dressing tiger population in country, Babul Supriyo said, "About 3.5 crore photos were taken by camera traps in forests in Tiger Census 2018, 76,651 of which were of tigers and 51,777 were of leopards. More than 30,000 camera traps covered more than 3,81,400 sq km area." He revealed that se photos helped in analysis of number of tigers. "Initially we would just use pug prints to look for tigers. w we have more than 30,00 camera traps to assess numbers," he said.

Prakash Javekar also released numbers of or endangered animals in country saying, "India has 30,000 elephants, 3,000 one-horned rhis and more than 500 lions." 

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