Before the tiger census this year, know the status of tigers in India. What the final report of tiger census 2018 says. What’s the mortality rate of tigers in India.
Six numbers of tigers died in the first 8days of the new year 2022 according to NTCA. Among them 3 in Maharashtra, one each in Bihar, Madhyapradesh, and Karnatak. The total number of tigers that died in 2021 is 127. It means one tiger dies every 3days. Tiger Mortality rate in India
The overall tiger population in India was estimated at 2,967. Out of this, 83% were actually camera-trapped individual tigers and 87% were accounted for by camera trap-based capture-mark-recapture, and the remaining 13% were estimated through covariate-based models. Tigers were observed to be increasing at a rate of 6% per annum in India when consistently sampled areas were compared from 2006 to 2018. Tiger occupancy has increased in the state of Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh. The poor and continuing decline in tiger status in the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha is a matter of concern.
The overall leopard population in the tiger range landscape of India was estimated at 12,852. Out of a total of 10,602 surveyed grids (100 km2) in India, leopard presence was recorded for 3,475. Grids have 186,698 km2 of forest. Major population block in India having
5,906 leopards occur in the 91,427 km2 forested landscape of Central India comprising of several Tiger Reserves and Protected Areas. The second major population block supporting about 2,924 leopards occurs in the Western Ghats. Leopard sign index was the major covariate for leopard population estimates through spatially explicit capture-recapture model
