Good news for India — tigers are making a big comeback! According to a new study in the journal Science, in just over ten years, India has doubled its number of tigers. Now there are more than 3,600 tigers living there. This means three out of every four wild tigers in the world live in India.

What makes this really special? These tigers live in an area that’s just half the size of Britain, and they share this space with 60 million people. That’s a lot of humans and tigers living near each other! The research team found that this special area covers about 1,38,200 square kilometres of land, where tigers roam freely through forests, grasslands, and even areas close to villages.

The study credits four core areas that helped India achieve this

• India was able to stop people from hunting tigers by having strict laws and forest guards
• India protected the places where tigers live by making special areas called reserves
• The country made sure tigers had enough food to eat by protecting deer and other animals that tigers hunt
• India helped the people who........
  

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