"India’s tiger population has rebounded, growing more than 30 percent over the last four years to 2,226, according to a new government census released on Tuesday.

“It is incredible, wonderful,” said Yadvendradev Jhala, a tiger expert at the Wildlife Institute of India, and one of the supervisors of the report.

India is home to 70 percent of the world’s tigers, and the latest increase comes after a decade-long effort to fight poaching and mitigate its effects, including a special tiger protection force and programs for orphaned cubs."

Hari Kumar reports for the New York Times January 20, 2015. [2]