The tiger population in the two states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana soon hit the century mark, thanks to a recovery track successfully established that the channels through Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve. If Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments manage to prevent poaching in the coming years, the tiger population will grow at least 68 times in 2014 to little more than a hundred in 2018.
The minimum, but encouraging growth in the tiger population will ensure that conservation authorities wildlife Tigers have managed to cultivate eight women who gave birth to an average of three cubs during the last two years. As some pups reach adulthood upon reaching the age of two this year, conservationists say another batch will turn two in 2018.
The cubs were spotted on camera equipment monitoring office control wildlife crime that was introduced a few years ago.
According to the latest tiger census, whose report was released in January 2014, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are the only states in southern India with a tiger count exhaustion dipping 95 in 2006 to 68 in 2014. In other states South India like Karnataka, the tiger population increased from 103 in 2006 to 190 in 2014.
In Tamil Nadu the population had seen strong growth from 76-229 during the same period. In Maharashtra, the population increase was 103-190 from 2006-2014 and in Kerala the increase was 290-406 during the same period. The tiger population in Telangana has been depleted due to large-scale poaching of individuals for teeth, skin and nails. Hyderabad is an asset for sale nail market, officials said.
Chips of indigenous population
Conservationists have been supporting the Tigers with the help of the indigenous population that find their abode in Nallamala forests. “The use of cameras could detect 20-22 individuals in Mahabubnagar and Adilabad part of the reserve and some of them have puppies,” the head of wildlife, Telangana director said. In Andhra Pradesh also, puppies and individuals were seen, authorities said. According to conservationists, tigers are more moist deciduous forests of Andhra Pradesh that dry deciduous forests in Telangana. “In Kawal, Telangana, mostly detect a floating population of tigers. The moist deciduous forests in Guntur, Kurnool and Prakasam have a good population of tigers,” said Rahul Pandey, IFS officer who worked in conservation.
