Sentences with phrase «tiger numbers»
Recent declines in tiger numbers in the once thriving source sites in Nepal were also associated with reduced emphasis on protection [25].
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It aims to double tiger numbers by 2022.
In Malaysia, Panthera is working with the Johor State Government as part of of a collaborative project with the Wildlife Conservation Society that aims to increase tiger numbers by 50 percent over a 10 - year period at key sites across the animal's range.
Forest loss, poaching and dwindling prey have driven tiger numbers below 3,...
Wild tiger numbers have plummeted because of human encroachment, the loss of more than nine - tenths of their habitat and poaching.
The DNA approach could be especially useful for estimating tiger numbers in locations where setting up cameras is very difficult, says Karanth, such as in the Sundarbans mangrove forest in the Ganges delta or where tiger densities are low, like in the Russian Far East.
Unrestricted landscape development results in 25 % lower genetic diversity and reduction in tiger numbers as several small populations in the landscape go extinct.
After a century of tiger numbers dropping due to poaching and habitat loss, this looked like good news.
«Our results highlight that along with our efforts to increase tiger numbers within PAs, a lot more needs to be done to meet the targets we have set for the year 2020.
The study found that tiger densities are 47 percent higher in primary versus degraded (logged) forests and that extensive clearing of pristine lowland forest has disproportionately reduced tiger numbers.
However, with tiger numbers dwindling, the illegal trade is looking like an increasingly unsustainable, as well as unsavoury, business.
The government estimated current tiger numbers in India at 1,706, up from 1,411 during the last count in 2007.
Concerted efforts to develop joined up tiger reserves could triple tiger numbers in Asia.
The call came as governments from 13 countries where tigers exist in the wild met in Thailand to discuss their conservation and how to boost tiger numbers.
The Malenad - Mysore tiger landscape currently maintains > 220 adult tigers, one of the greatest concentrations in the world, mainly due to intensive protection of its source sites such as Nagarahole National Park, where tiger numbers have increased by 400 % after protection began in the early 1970s [17], [18], and has now maintained a high density for 30 years -LRB-[19], unpublished data).
Only when we are able to stop the slide in tiger numbers at source sites will we be successful at managing tigers across the wider landscape.
In the Russian Far East, traditionally a stronghold for tigers, annual monitoring detected a dramatic decline in tiger numbers over the last five years, which was associated with a decline in enforcement [23], [24].
Current approaches to tiger conservation are not slowing the decline in tiger numbers [1]--[3], which has continued unabated over the last two decades.
Wild tiger numbers are at an historic low.
India is a signatory to The Global Tiger Recovery Program, which aims to double the tiger numbers by 2020.