Sentences with phrase «new tiger population»
NEW DELHI, March, 28 2011 — The Indian Government today released new tiger population numbers for the first time since 2007, indicating that numbers have increased in the country that has half of the world's remaining wild tigers.
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NEW DELHI — Hot on the heels of a study that used feces to track penguin populations from space (ScienceNOW, 6 June), researchers in India are reporting that DNA from tiger poop can help them estimate the cat's numbers in the wild.
«This is how we will monitor tiger populations and how they move around the landscape in the future,» predicts George Amato, director of the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's conservation foundation has awarded a $ 3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to help Nepal increase its tiger population.
India announced the results of its new survey at the first international meeting on tiger conservation since the big Russian conclave last fall at which countries with tiger populations pledged to move from conferences to concrete actions on the ground.
According to a new official census released in Delhi today, the tiger population in India has increased to 1,706 - up from 1,114 in 2008.