News Desk : dhakamirror.com
The number of Royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans has increased to 125.
The Ministry of Forests has published the results of the third phase of the tiger census.
The survey was conducted between June 2023 and March 2024 to observe the population of the national animal of Bangladesh.
Environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan unveiled the finding at the secretariat on Tuesday.
Earlier, in 2018 tiger population was counted as 114 and in 2015 it was 106.
Rizwana Hasan said, ‘The steady increase of tiger population indicates good forest health. It has been possible for several reasons, including preserving 53.52 per cent of the national forest, minimising tiger and man conflicts and taking measures against poaching.’
According to the survey report, the number of tiger cub has also increased significantly. In 2024 at least 21 cubs have been recorded.
The number of cubs has not been included in the list of total tiger because the surviving rate of the cubs is very low.
In 2024, they surveyors divided the Sunderbans into 605 parts and set 1,210 cameras to observe the movement of tigers for 318 days.
Forest Department officials said that the government measures, such as 60 km fencing near locality to stop tiger attack on villagers, setting 12 shelters for animals in the forest during disaster and activating 49 response teams to send back tiger safely if any enters the locality, also helped to grow the tiger population in the forest.
International Union for Conservation of Nature listed tiger as a critically endangered animal in Bangladesh in 2010. Tiger used to be found in 13 countries across the world. Now they are found only in 10 countries, including Bangladesh and India.
