The latest global tiger census indicates a significant rise in the tiger population in Asia, especially the Indian subcontinent. Habitats in India cover temperate, evergreen forests, alluvial grasslands, mountain forests as well as the challenging ecosystem of mangrove forests. A recent report of a tigress being killed in Nagaland has had experts suggesting that it could have been a rare Indo-Chinese subspecies of tiger that may have migrated from Myanmar.
As the Northeast could support some of the richest tiger habitats in India, joint conservation management between SAARC member nations could further help conservation.
Saikat Kumar Basu,
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
