: Interview: South Asia needs a regional plan to sustain the Bengal tiger population #IndiaNEWS The tiger population in Nepal nearly tripled over the past 12 years. As part of global efforts to double

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Interview: South Asia needs a regional plan to sustain the Bengal tiger population #IndiaNEWS
The tiger population in Nepal nearly tripled over the past 12 years. As part of global efforts to double the wild tiger population, the country’s target was to have 250 tigers by this year, but the figure of 355 surpassed that.Despite the applause, various concerns have emerged, especially about the maximum number of tigers that can live in the country, and the escalation of human-tiger conflict. On September 11, a man was killed in a tiger attack near Bardiya National Park in western Nepal. According to government figures, three people were killed on average every month in encounters with tigers during the last fiscal year, which ended in July.No agency is more central to both the successes and shortcomings of Nepal’s tiger policy than the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, the country’s primary and frontline body when it comes to advising the government on conservation and implementing its policies and programmes.The department, whose officers such as wardens and game scouts work in various protected areas of the country alongside the army, has been credited for the success of Nepal’s tiger conservation programme. However, it has also been criticised at times for its inability to address the concerns of Indigenous peoples and local communities living close...Read more

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