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International Tiger Day 2023

International Tiger Day: Saving the Big Cat in India with Project Tiger On April 1, 1973, the Indira Gandhi administration introduced Project Tiger in an effort to advance tiger protection. As a result of unrestricted hunting and habitat degradation, the number of tigers in India was at an all-time low and was declining quickly at the time. In an effort to increase public awareness of numerous tiger conservation-related concerns, today, July 29, is observed as International Tiger Day. The 13 nations that make up the tiger range initially established Tx2—the worldwide target to double the population of wild tigers by the year 2022—in 2010 at the Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Tx2's objectives were supposed to be completed by last year, however there was unequal development. While Southeast Asian nations struggled to stop population loss, others, including India, did far better, according to the World Wildlife Fund.  "Political commitment is perhaps the most important c...