Tiger population booms in India's Terai region

Manas National Park in Assam has also seen a slight increase so far, as the number of tigers in two of the three regions of the reserve forests has gone up from 11 in 2014 census to at least 16 in November 2016. "This time we are also doing census in the western division of Panvari, which was left out in 2014. We expect a good result in the final count," H.K Sharma, Field Director, Manas, told IANS. India is home to 70 per cent of the world's free-ranging tigers, estimated at 2,226 in 2014, of which at least 640 dwell outside tiger reserves.