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Global Tiger Day, often called International Tiger Day, is an annual celebrationtoraise awareness for tiger conservation, held annually on 29 July.[1] It was created in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia.[2] The goal of the day is to promote a global system for protecting the natural habitats of tigers and to raise public awareness and support for tiger conservation issues.[3] International Tiger Day has been shown to be effective in increasing online awareness on tigers through information search.[4]
The seventh annual Global Tiger Day was celebrated in various ways around the world. Local events have been organized in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India as well as non-tiger-range countries such as England and the United States.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Some celebrities also participated by removing their social media profile photos.[11] The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) continued its promotion of the "Double Tigers" campaign through investing in rangers.[12] Several companies partnered with WWF to help raise awareness.[13][14]
More awareness in the entire world of tiger populations and the challenges for their conservationists. India counts the number of wild tigers every four years and showed a promising rise from 1411 in 2006 to 2226 in 2014.[15] The trend for rising population of tigers in India is as follows:
In April 2023, the Prime Minister expressed happiness that India is home to 75% of the world's tiger population in the 75th year of Indian independence. It is also a coincidence, the Prime Minister continued, that the tiger reserves in India cover 75,000 square kilometers of land and in the past ten to twelve years, the tiger population in the country has increased by 75 percent.[17]
In India, the tiger population has shown a significant increase, reaching 3,682, up from 2,967 in 2018. This marks a notable rise of almost 24% within a span of four years. These figures reflect a positive trend, surpassing the 3,167 tigers reported by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an event in Mysore on April 9. This announcement coincided with a program commemorating 50 years of Project Tiger, a renowned conservation initiative globally acclaimed for its efforts.
The revised figures follow detailed analyses of census data collected during the fifth cycle of estimation conducted in 2022.
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