2022 is the Year of the Tiger, and we have some good news to report on this endangered species: the long-term decline in wild tiger numbers has finally been reversed. This hard-fought conservation success story has its origins in the last Year of the Tiger in 2010, when the 13 countries with wild tigers agreed to double their numbers. And it has proved to be a turning point. The past decade has seen successful conservation action in several countries across Asia although historic threats, ranging from habitat destruction to illegal wildlife trade, have not gone away. While the global estimate for wild tigers may be on the rise, their numbers continue to decline in Southeast Asia with the species now likely to be extinct in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. So we’ll continue our recovery efforts and urge others to do the same.
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