Maheshwar Dhakal, the newly appointed director-general of Nepal’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, says a regional plan is needed to sustain the Bengal tiger population.

KATHMANDU — The year 2024 marked two years since Nepal announced the near tripling of its wild Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) population as part of the 2010 global initiative to save the ...

Nepal's tiger population has more than doubled in the last 12 years after almost going extinct, but now humans are in danger of losing their lives, according to the country's prime minister.

the deputy director of the tiger program at the wildcat conservation group Panthera, which supported Nepal’s recent efforts to survey its population of Bengal tigers. At the start of the 20th ...

Royal Bengal tigers in their enclosure at the central zoo in Lalitpur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, on July 29, 2022. Nepal has nearly tripled its wild tiger population over the past decade ...

A Bengal tiger fitted with a GPS tracking collar and translocated from Nepal's Chitwan National Park to Bardia National Park has been killed, according to Department of National Parks and Wildlife ...

Camera traps in Nepal's Bardia National Park identified ... The growth of the Bengal, or Indian, tiger populations in this region shows that the animals can rebound quickly if given the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A tethered buffalo killed a Bengal tiger on the fringes of Chitwan National Park in Nepal. The incident highlights lapses in the compensation ...

Today, only around 4,500 are estimated to remain, according to the IUCN. Conservation successes have increased the Bengal tiger populations in India and Nepal in recent years.

he said. The World Wildlife Fund’s most recent National Tiger and Prey Survey in 2022 revealed that over the previous 12 years Nepal’s Bengal tiger population grew from 121 in 2009 to 355.

HAVANA, July 29 (Reuters) - Another rare Bengal tiger cub was born at Cuba's National ... once roamed the forests in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. But their numbers have plummeted to about 2,500 ...