Tiger deaths                                                                                                

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Context: Tiger deaths increased to 127 last year from 106 deaths in the previous year. The number of tiger deaths in 2019 stood at 96.

Reasons for tiger death include:

• old age
• infighting among tigers
• snaring, drowning, road, rail hits
• electrocution and poaching.

Other facts:

• Average life span of the tigers in the wild is generally 10-12 years.
• India is the largest tiger range country in the world and has now more than 75 per cent of the global tiger population.

Royal Bengal Tiger:

• It forms a specific population of the Pantheratigristigris subspecies that is native to the Indian subcontinent.
• Threats: poaching, loss and fragmentation of habitat.
• Conservation status:
  • IUCN Status: Endangered
  • Protected under schedule 1 of Wildlife Protection Act.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tiger-deaths-increased-to-127-in-2021-from-106-in-2020-govt-in-rajya-sabha/article38407007.ece