Global Tiger day 2022
Global Tiger day 2022
The International Tiger day was first organized
at 2010 in Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia , that a number of countries
were signed an agreement to prevent the tigers from extinction and in order to raise awareness about the loss of
tiger population globally. It was noted
that 97 per cent of the tigers had vanished in the past century, that only 3000
tigers were remaining. Tigers are found only in 13 countries of the globe,
where 70 per cent of the tigers are found in India.
International Tiger day
was celebrated on 29 July 2022. Every
year the day was celebrated at different themes in accordance with the Tiger
awareness. This year the theme was that
“India launches project Tiger to revive the tiger population”. The International Tiger Day is celebrated to create awareness to conserve
tiger population. According to the World
Wildlife Fund, India is regarded as a home to half of the world’s Tigers population as noted that Tiger is the
National animal of India. According to the survey, approximately 95 per cent of
the tiger population is declined in last 150 years of human
existence. Madhya Pradesh was recorded huge
number of human deaths due to tigers while Madhya Pradesh is
considered as the “Tiger State” of India.
The main aim of celebrating this international tiger
day is to create a natural living habitat for tigers and preserving species
from extinction. The current tiger
population is 3,9000 according to WWF.
329 Tigers lost in 3 years
Ashwini Kumar Choubey, union Minister for state of
environment raised an issue in the parliament stated that 329 tigers were lost
in 3 years. He surveyed that India had lost 96 tigers in
2019 , 106 tigers in 2020 and 127 tigers
in 2021. These tigers death are cause
due to natural and unnatural cause. Out
of 329 death, 68 were died due to natural cause, 5 died at unnatural cause , 29
died because of poaching and 30 died due to seizure. Because of this deaths 197 tigers were put to
careful examination.
