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Royal Bengal Tiger 15NP INDIA 1974 MN H
Text: 15 NP INDIA
Condition: MN H
Title:
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tiger
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|---|---|
Face value:
| 15 |
Country/area:
| India |
Year:
| 1974 |
Set:
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| Stamp number in set: | |
Basic colour:
| Brown |
Exact colour:
| |
Usage:
| Definitive |
Type:
| Stamp |
Theme:
| Animals (Fauna) , Cats, Predators, Tigers,Mammals |
Stamp subject:
| Panthera tigris, tijger |
|---|---|
Michel number:
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Yvert number:
| 401 |
Scott number:
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Stanley Gibbons number:
| 730 |
The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) or Indian tiger is a tiger subspecies native to South Asia, and is the national animal of India and Bangladesh.
The Bengal tiger is the most numerous tiger subspecies with populations estimated at 1,706–1,909 in India, 440 in Bangladesh, 124–229 in Nepal and 67–81 in Bhutan.[2][3][4][5]
Bengal is traditionally fixed as the typical locality for the binomial Panthera tigris, to which the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the Bengal tiger in 1929 under the trinomial Panthera tigris tigris.[6][7]
Since 2010, it has been classified as an endangered species by IUCN. The total population is estimated at fewer than 2,500 individuals with a decreasing trend, and none of the Tiger Conservation Landscapes within the Bengal tiger's range is large enough to support an effective population size of 250 adult individuals
Threats
Over the past century tiger numbers have fallen dramatically, with a decreasing population trend. None of the Tiger Conservation Landscapes within the Bengal tiger range is large enough to support an effective population size of 250 individuals. Habitat losses and the extremely large-scale incidences of poaching are serious threats to the species' survival.[1]
The challenge in the Western Ghats forest complex in western South India, an area of 14,400 square miles (37,000 km2) stretching across several protected areas is that people literally live on top of the wildlife. The Save the Tiger Fund Council estimates that 7,500 landless people live illegally inside the boundaries of the 386-square-mile (1,000 km2) Nagarhole National Park in southwestern India. A voluntary if controversial resettlement is underway with the aid of the Karnataka Tiger Conservation Project led by K. Ullas Karanth of the Wildlife Conservation Society.[citation needed]
A 2007 report by UNESCO, "Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage" has stated that an anthropogenic 45-cm rise in sea level, likely by the end of the 21st century, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, combined with other forms of anthropogenic stress on the Sundarbans, could lead to the destruction of 75% of the Sundarbans mangroves.[citation needed] The Forest Rights Act passed by the Indian government in 2006 grants some of India's most impoverished communities the right to own and live in the forests, which likely brings them into conflict with wildlife and under-resourced, under-trained, ill-equipped forest department staff. In the past, evidence showed that humans and tigers cannot co-exist
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