The number of tigers living in the wild has increased in five countries, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The tiger is on the list of (danger) animals, but the WWF has found that the number of wild tigers in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Russia is increasing.
The news comes 10 years after the number of tigers was the (low) in history. The WWF says there were as few as 3, 200 tigers living in the wild in 2010—a drop of 95% since the (begin) of the 20th century.
This led the TX2 project, which hoped to double the number of tigers. In the wild by 2022, the next Chinese Year of the Tiger. The (agree) was signed by the WWF and 13 countries where tigers now live or recently lived.
The number of tigers in India more doubled between 2006 and 2018. Now the country is (believe) to be home to between 2, 600 and 3, 350 tigers, three-quarters of all the tigers in the world.
The WWF's Becci May said that the number of tigers dropped so much in the last century of changes in land use.
"Tigers are also at risk from poaching (偷猎) and hunting, and they can get (catch) in traps (陷阱) that are meant for other animals." According to the Wildlife Protection Society of India, as as 38 tigers were killed by poachers in India in 2019-about one-third of all the tigers that died in the country that year.
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