India's tiger population up by 30%

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Nice to hear some good news for a change.

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1. Oh, that's wonderful news - thanks.

K&R

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2. This is good news but ...

>>Presenting the findings of the latest tiger census, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the tiger population had risen from 1,706 in 2011 to 2,226 in 2014.

He said a number of government initiatives to streamline tiger conservation were behind the increase.

India is estimated to be home to around 70% of the world's tigers.

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If India has 70% of the world's tigers, the other 30% (a mere ~667 tigers) are elsewhere leaving us with a total of less that 3,000 tigers worldwide.

While it is good news that the population has increased I find it rather shocking that there are less than 3,000 tigers left in the world.

& recommend.

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4. I had no idea there were such few tigers left

Hopefully the numbers will continue to go up

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3. Jackie Chan is trying to help out too...

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5. Does that include

Richard Parker?