Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP)

• 15 Nov 2023

Recently, as per the report submitted under the Global Tiger Recovery Program (GTRP) 2.0 overall tiger population increased 60%.

About GTRP

• It was launched in 2010 under the Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) by the World Bank to save wild tigers.
• This initiative set up the ambitious target of reversing the rapid decline of wild tigers across their range and doubling their population numbers by 2022.
• Alongside these top-level targets, the GTRP set out urgent thematic actions at a national level to strengthen wild tiger conservation in sync with this global goal.
• The first GTRP helped to pull focus to wild tiger conservation and secure a collective commitment from TRCs.
• It was endorsed in the St Petersburg Declaration in 2010 which saw 13 tiger range countries committing to reverse the decline of the species population.
• The 13 tiger range countries are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China,India, Indonesia, Lao PDR Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand, and Vietnam.