List of Indian states by wildlife population
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The Bengal tiger and the Indian elephant are endangered species which are protected by Project Tiger and Project Elephant programmes run by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.[1][2][3] Indian Leopards are vulnerable and protected species.[4] Asiatic lion is an endangered species only found in Gir National Park of India.[5] The Indian wolf is an endangered subspecies of grey wolf.[6] The tiger numbers are of animals aged above 1.5 years.[7][8]
India is home to 75% of the world's tiger population[9] as well as 60% of Asian elephant population.[10]
State-wise data
- The South Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are home to nearly 44% of the elephants, 35% of the tigers and 31% of the leopards in India.[11]
- The state of Karnataka alone is home to 22% of the elephants, 18% of the tigers and 14% of the leopards in India.
- The Northeast Indian states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura together with West Bengal account for 30% of the elephants and 5% of the tiger population.
- The state of Gujarat is the only state with 100% of Asiatic lion population in the world.[12]
- Information of the states Punjab, Haryana, Manipur, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir are missing.
| State | Tigers (2022)[13] | Elephants (2025)[14] | Leopards (2022)[15] | Asiatic lion (2025)[16] | Indian wolf (2022)[17] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | |
| Andhra Pradesh | 62 | 120 | 569 | 0 | 165 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 29 | 617 | 42 | 0 | |
| Assam | 182 | 4,159 | 74 | 0 | |
| Bihar | 31 | 13 | 86 | 0 | 33 |
| Chhattisgarh | 19 | 451 | 722 | 0 | 320 |
| Goa | 2 | 0 | 77 | 0 | |
| Gujarat | 0 | 0 | 2274 | 891 | 494 |
| Haryana | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Himachal Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 1,114[18] | 0 | |
| Jharkhand | 5 | 217 | 51 | 0 | 82 |
| Karnataka | 524 | 6,013 | 1,879 | 0 | 72 |
| Kerala | 183 | 2,785 | 570 | 0 | |
| Madhya Pradesh | 785 | 97 | 3,907 | 0 | 772 |
| Maharashtra | 444 | 63 | 1,985 | 0 | 396 |
| Manipur | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Meghalaya | 0 | 677 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mizoram | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nagaland | 0 | 252 | 0 | 0 | |
| Odisha | 20 | 912 | 568 | 0 | 84 |
| Rajasthan | 88 | 0 | 721 | 0 | 532 |
| Tamil Nadu | 306 | 3,136 | 1,070 | 0 | |
| Telangana | 21 | 57 | 297 | 0 | 156 |
| Tripura | 0 | 153 | 0 | 0 | |
| Uttar Pradesh | 205 | 257 | 371 | 0 | 61 |
| Uttarakhand | 560 | 1,792 | 652 | 0 | |
| West Bengal | 131 | 707 | 233 | 0 | 24 |
| Total | 3,682[13] | 22,446 | 13,874 | 891 | 3,191 |
See also
References
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- ^ "Project Tiger". projecttiger.nic.in. Archived from the original on 11 February 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "About Project Elephant". Government of India. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ Farrows. "Indian Leopard: Species in World Land Trust reserves". World Land Trust. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ Singh, H. S. & Gibson, L. (2011). "A conservation success story in the otherwise dire megafauna extinction crisis: The Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) of Gir forest". Biological Conservation. 144 (5): 1753–1757. Bibcode:2011BCons.144.1753S. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.707.1382. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.009.
- ^ Hennelly, Lauren M.; Habib, Bilal; Modi, Shrushti; Rueness, Eli K.; Gaubert, Philippe; Sacks, Benjamin N. (2021). "Ancient divergence of Indian and Tibetan wolves revealed by recombination-aware phylogenomics". Molecular Ecology. 30 (24): 6687–6700. Bibcode:2021MolEc..30.6687H. doi:10.1111/mec.16127. ISSN 1365-294X. PMID 34398980. S2CID 237147842.
- ^ "Tiger population grows". CNN IBN. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "Tiger numbers grow by 30". Times of India. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "Tiger no. Up 33% in 4 years, India has 75% of global population | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 30 July 2019.
- ^ Koshy, Jacob (12 August 2021). "Common survey to count India's elephant and tiger populations". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Elephant census 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ Kaushik, Himanshu (4 August 2017). "Gir National Park: Lion population roars to 650 in Gujarat forests". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
- ^ a b Qureshi, Q.; Jhala, Y. V.; Yadav, S. P. & Mallick, A. (2023). Status of tigers, co-predators and prey in India 2022 (PDF) (Report). National Tiger Conservation Authority & Wildlife Institute of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 May 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ^ "STATUS OF ELEPHANTS IN INDIA: DNA BASED SYNCHRONOUS ALL INDIA POPULATION ESTIMATION OF ELEPHANTS" (PDF). Wildlife Institute of India.
- ^ "Leopard status 2022" (PDF). ntca.gov.in. 19 February 2024.
- ^ "India's Asiatic lion population rises by a third". 21 May 2025.
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