Nepal: While overall population still low, tiger numbers up substantially in PAs, government says
The population of tiger in protected areas in the country has seen a remarkable increase this year thanks to the government's efforts to save the wildcats from extinction.
Organising a press meet at the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) on the occasion the World Tiger Day Thursday, the Forest Ministry made public the results of a study conducted in national parks of the country which found a total of 155 tigers in the protected areas in the country.
This is an encouraging increase in the number of tiger population in the country as last year's tiger census shows only 121 tigers living in major tiger habitats and forests of the country.
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