Improved monitoring has shown nearly 6,000 tigers, says International Union for Conservation of Nature, with population ‘stable or increasing’
There are 40% more tigers in the wild than previously thought, with as many as 5,578 around, though they remain an endangered species, according to a leading conservationist group.
Major threats included poaching of tigers themselves, poaching and hunting of their prey, and habitat destruction due to agriculture and human settlement.
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