With reference to the detailed report of Tiger Census 2018 released by Government of India in July 2020, which of the following Statement(s) is/are correct ?
1. India has 70% of total global tiger's p

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With reference to the detailed report of Tiger Census 2018 released by Government of India in July 2020, which of the following Statement(s) is/are correct ?
1. India has 70% of total global tiger's population.
2. Nearly 30% of India's tigers live outside tiger reserve.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below.

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Correct — C, both statements are correct. The detailed report 'Status of Tigers in India 2018' (from the 2018 All-India Tiger Estimation, released July 2020) put India's tiger count at about 2,967 and confirmed that India is home to roughly 70% of the world's wild tiger population — the largest of any country (Statement 1 true). It also found that nearly 30% of India's tigers live outside the notified tiger reserves — in reserve forests, corridors and multi-use landscapes — which is why corridor and landscape-level conservation matters (Statement 2 true). Since both hold, the answer is (c).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Incomplete — Statement 1 is true, but Statement 2 (about 30% of tigers outside reserves) is also true, so '1 only' is wrong.  (b) Incomplete — Statement 2 is true, but Statement 1 (India holds ~70% of the world's tigers) is also true, so '2 only' is wrong.  (d) Both statements are factually correct per the 2018 estimation report, so 'neither' is wrong.

Concept: India runs the world's largest tiger-conservation programme, Project Tiger (1973), overseen by the statutory National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. A country-wide tiger estimation is carried out every four years using camera traps and sign surveys by NTCA with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII). Tigers are conserved in a core-buffer 'tiger reserve' model, but a large share of the population lives in forests and corridors beyond those notified reserves.

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