India lost 329 Tigers and 307 Elephants in 3 years between 2019 and 2021

As per a recent data presented by Union Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey, India lost 329 tigers in the last three years, between 2019 to 2021.
- These deaths were recorded as 96 tigers in 2019, 106 in 2020 and 127 in 2021. The cause of death mainly included poaching, natural and unnatural causes.
- The data showed that 68 tiger did due to natural causes, 5 died because of unnatural causes, while 29 deaths were attributed to poaching and 30 to ‘seizure’. Death cause of 197 tiger are still under scrutiny.
- However, the number of poaching cases was found to be reduced from 17 in 2019 to four in 2021.
A similar survey was done for elephants also. This survey revealed that as many as 307 elephants died between 2019 and 2021 due to poaching, electrocution, poisoning and train accidents.
The cause of deaths in the last three years is shown below:
- 222 elephants died due to electrocution. Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Assam reported 41, 34 and 33 such deaths, respectively.
- 45 elephants have died in train accidents. Odisha and West Bengal reported 12 and 11 such deaths respectively.
- 29 elephants have died due to poaching. Meghalaya and Odisha reported 12 and 7 such deaths respectively.
- 11 elephants have died due to poisoning, which included 9 in Assam.