These Reserves In India Doubled Down On Tiger Population And Got International Acclaim For It
The Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) spread across Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh have been awarded the TX2 Award for doubling the big cat population there.
What is TX2 Award?
The TX2 Awards, which stands for 'Tigers times two', were announced on Tuesday and are given for doubling the tiger population. These awards are supported by Conservation Assured I Tiger Standards (CATS), Fauna & Flora International, Global Tiger Forum (GTF), IUCN, Panthera, UNDP, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and WWF.
Tiger count in Pench reserve
While Pench (MP) increased its tiger population from 33 (2006) to 87 (2018), STR increased its numbers from 13 in 2010 to 48 in 2021.?
Satpura also received the Conservation Excellence Award for outstanding reserve management.?
The Maharashtra part of Pench also saw the tiger population increase from 9 in 2006 to 44 in 2021.
T4, aka Patdev becomes mother of 20
Earlier this month, PTR in MP had added four more tiger cubs to its count after Tigress T4, also known as Patdev, gave birth, taking her offspring tally to 20 in five litters since 2014.
PTR officials first spotted Patdev with her four cubs, estimated to be around two months old, on January 9.
Tigress T4, about 12 years old, had given birth to four cubs for the first time in 2014, but two of them later died.
T4 was born in 2010 to tigress Collarwali, who gave birth to 29 cubs in eight litters between 2008 and 2018.
Collarwali died at the age of 17 in June last year.
Other tiger reserves with TX2 Award?
In 2022, the Orang National Park and Tiger Reserve in Assam and the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu received the TX2 Award.
In 2020, Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit Tiger Reserve was awarded the first TX2 Award for doubling its tiger population before the stipulated time frame.?
India is among the 13 countries with tiger reserves that decided, in 2010, to double their tiger populations by 2022.
According to the WWF, the TX2 Awards celebrate the remarkable contributions made by government bodies, NGOs, and local communities to strengthen tiger conservation.?
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