The thirteen Tiger Range Countries pledged to double the world’s tiger population by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger on the Asian lunar calendar, with a goal of achieving at least 6,000 tigers.
The thirteen Tiger Range Countries came together in an unprecedented pledge to double the world’s tiger population by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger on the Asian lunar calendar, with a goal of achieving at least 6,000 tigers.
This figure was based on a baseline global population of 3,200, agreed upon at a preparatory workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal in October 2009. 3,200 tigers was the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species population estimate at that time.
Since then, Tiger Range Countries have adjusted their baseline national Tiger estimates, finalized in the Global Tiger Recovery Program adopted at the International Tiger Forum in St Petersburg, Russia in November 2010.
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• Sources | (GTRP 2010; Goodrich et al., 2015; Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP), 2011)
