Nepal has started to count the numbers of its Bengal tigers.

The species, which lives in the vast forest plains of the south of the country, is threatened by deforestation, invasion of its habitat and poaching.

Its population has been wiped out across Asia.

Nepal and 12 other countries pledged in 2010 to double the number of tigers in their territory by 2022. This conservation plan is supported by several celebrities, including Leonardo DiCaprio.

Nepal has started to identify the number of its Bengal tigers, an endangered species living in the vast southern forest plains #AFP pic.twitter.com/L0USANFLHi

- Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) December 6, 2021

A population of tigers finally on the rise

As part of the census, technicians began this Sunday to install some of the 4,000 cameras that will be installed on the 12,000 km² of protected areas in the country.

Experts will identify each animal by its stripes.

The investigation will assess whether "our safeguarding strategies […] have worked," said an official from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.

The global population of wild Bengal tigers stood at 3,890 in 2016 compared to 3,200 at the start of this decade, according to WWF and the World Tiger Forum.

This is the first population increase in over a century.

A survey estimated the number of Bengal tigers at 235 in 2018, double its population nine years earlier.

"Nepal has achieved exceptional results in tiger conservation despite a multitude of difficult situations," WWF Nepal representative said in a statement on Sunday.

“The figures bear witness to this.

The census results are expected in July.

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