List of Indian states by wildlife population

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State wise Bengal Tiger Population India, 2019

Bengal Tiger and Indian Elephant are endangered species which are protected by Project Tiger and Project Elephant programmes run by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.[1][2][3] Indian Leopards are threatened and protected species. The tiger numbers are of animals aged above 1.5 years.[4][5]

India is home to 75% of the world's tiger population[6] as well as 55% of Asian elephant population.[7]

State-wise data

  • The South Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are home to nearly 44% of the elephants, 35% of the tigers and 31% of the leopards in India.[8]
  • The state of Karnataka alone is home to 22% of the elephants, 18% of the tigers and 14% of the leopards in India.
  • The Northeast Indian states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura together with West Bengal account for 30% of the elephants and 5% of the tiger population.
  • The state of Gujarat is the only state with 100% of Asiatic lion population in the world.[9]
  • Information of the states Punjab, Haryana, Telangana, Manipur, Himachal Pradesh and Kashmir Jammu missing.
Tiger, Leopard and Elephant population by state
State Tigers (2018)[10] Elephants (2017)[11] Leopards (2015)[12] Asiatic lion (2020)[13]
Andhra Pradesh 48 65 343 0
Arunachal Pradesh 29 1,614 — 0
Assam 190 5,719 — 0
Bihar 31 25 32 0
Chhattisgarh 19 247 846 0
Goa 3 0 71 0
Gujarat 0 0 — 674
Jharkhand 5 679 29 0
Karnataka 524 6,049 1,129 0
Kerala 190 3,054 472 0
Madhya Pradesh 526 7 1,817 0
Maharashtra 312 6 905 0
Meghalaya 0 1,754 — 0
Mizoram 0 7 — 0
Nagaland 0 446 — 0
Odisha 28 1,976 345 0
Rajasthan 69 0 171 0
Tamil Nadu 264 2,761 815 0
Tripura 0 102 — 0
Uttar Pradesh 173 232 194 0
Uttarakhand 442 1,839 703 0
West Bengal 88 194 — 0
Total 2,967 27,312 7,910 674

See also

References

  1. ^ "Project Elephant". wildlifeofindia.org. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Project Tiger". projecttiger.nic.in. Archived from the original on 11 February 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. ^ "About Project Elephant". Government of India. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Tiger population grows". CNN IBN. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  5. ^ "Tiger numbers grow by 30". Times of India. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  6. ^ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tiger-no-up-33-in-4-years-india-has-75-of-global-population/articleshow/70443094.cms
  7. ^ https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/elephants-assam-india-poaching-deaths-population-1314727-2018-08-14
  8. ^ "Elephant census 2017" (PDF).
  9. ^ Aug 4, Himanshu Kaushik | TNN | Updated:; 2017; Ist, 11:57. "Gir National Park: Lion population roars to 650 in Gujarat forests | Ahmedabad News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2020-02-25. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ https://projecttiger.nic.in/content/39_1_Reports.aspx
  11. ^ http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Synchronized%20Elephant%20Population%20Estimation%20India%202017.pdf
  12. ^ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Finally-India-gets-a-count-of-its-leopard-numbers-12000-14000/articleshow/48850420.cms
  13. ^ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/up-151-gujarat-now-has-674-asiatic-lions-as-two-new-dists-get-in-the-kings-camp-6453204/
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