Overview
- On July 29, reports and government statements reiterated that the All India Tiger Estimation 2022 counts 3,682 tigers in the wild, which equals roughly 70 percent of the global population.
- The National Tiger Conservation Authority recorded about 111–114 tiger deaths so far in 2026, with causes spanning old age, territorial fights, electrocution, train hits, poisoning and confirmed or suspected poaching.
- Wildlife veterinarians and reporters flagged the spread of Canine Distemper Virus among tigers as a growing threat that likely originates from unvaccinated domestic dogs near forests and that calls for dog vaccination and stronger disease surveillance.
- Conservation officials point to habitat loss and fragmented corridors that force dispersing tigers into human-dominated landscapes, increasing road and rail accidents, livestock clashes and retaliatory killings.
- States are expanding reserves, anti-poaching camps, camera traps, drones and community programmes and conservationists say the next priorities are protecting landscape-scale corridors, scaling disease prevention and improving enforcement to prevent gains from reversing.