It’s World Tiger day today, but is it time to celebrate? Well, it depends what reports you read.
Bhutan has 100 tigers, 30pc up on a previous estimate, according to a new survey. Good news.
Bangladesh has 106, less than a quarter of the 440 estimated a decade ago. Bad news.
India’s Bengal tiger population is up 30pc to 2,226, but they are only now including all tigers in the country in the census.
Confusing news.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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