BBAuthors: Panthi, S.; Advisor: -; Participants: Poudel, S.; Mishra, B. (2019)
The tiger Panthera tigris is distributed in Nepal as well as12 other countries of Asia. It is classed as ‘Endangered’ inthe IUCN red list (GTRP, 2010; Goodrich et al., 2015), isincluded in Appendix I of the Convention on InternationalTrade in Endangered Species (CITES, 2017), and is pro-tected by the Nepal’s National Parks and Wildlife Conserva-tion Act (GoN, 1973). The Global Tiger Recovery Programwas introduced in 2010 to double the tiger population by2022 (GTRP, 2010). As a tiger range country, Nepal isworking hard to increase the number of Bengal tigers, froma national population of 155 in 2010 to double by 2022(DNPWC, 2010; GTRP, 2010); the total number of tigersincreased to 198 ... 
