The world’s beleaguered tiger population has rebounded dramatically, according to new figures which find that numbers in their biggest habitat of India have soared by nearly 60 percent since 2008. Wildlife experts hailed the findings as tremendous news for tigers, pointing to them as evidence that concerted conservation efforts can pay off. According to Professor Claudio Sillero of Born Free and University of Oxford, “The improvement comes down to the establishment of the National Tiger Conservation Authority to co-ordinate activity, increasing the budget for protection, extending the areas under protection and putting a lot more people in uniforms on the coal face keeping poachers at bay.”
Link: The Independent