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International Tiger Day 2021: Interesting Facts and the Importance of Wild Cats in Human Life

International Tiger Day is celebrated on July 29 every year to generate awareness regarding the dwindling population of the species. The population of the national animal of India has been affected by several factors like illegal wildlife trade, human wildlife conflict, habitat loss, and fragmentation.

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) numbers of the Wild Tiger dropped by more than 95% over the last 150 years. However, for the first time in their conservation history, WWF has observed that their numbers are on the increase.

2022, which happens to be Chinese year of the Tiger, has been marked as the year when WWF aims to help double the number of wild tigers to over 6,000. Currently the total population of tigers around the world is known to be at 3,900. Around 3,000 of those wild tiger populations are in India.

Before the population of the wild cat became endangered, tigers used to roam across most of Asia. At present their population is restricted to just 7 percent of their original range and are only found in isolated forests and grasslands across 13 countries in the world.