Nepal is making significant progress in land and animal conservation, especially for endangered tigers.
The South Asian country is the only developing country in the world that has doubled its forest cover to 45 percent. The tiger population within Nepal has also tripled in the last 15 years.
Both private and public sectors have banded together to ensure the protection of tigers within Nepal. Focuses on monitoring, management, anti-poaching, and enforcing conservation laws have been essential in protecting this endangered animal. Tigers are hugely necessary to the healthy functioning of the ecosystem as they limit herbivores’ overgrazing. Moreover, they even bring greater prosperity to local communities through tourism jobs. Some years ago, the World Bank Group established the Global Tiger Initiative, which grouped the remaining 13 countries with wild tiger populations, committing them to doubling their tiger population numbers by 2022. To date, Nepal is the only country that successfully achieved the goal.
