Environment

Top officials from Asia’s tiger range countries are congregating in the Russian city of Vladivostok this coming week to assess their achievement in doubling tiger population 12 years after they pledged to do so.

Nepal succeeded in nearly tripling its tiger population since the last Chinese year of the tiger in 2010. Nepal increased its wild tiger population from 121 in 2010 to 355 in early 2022.

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But Nepal’s top official will be absent in the 2nd Global Tiger Summit. Minister for Forests and Environment Pradip Yadav has cancelled his official trip scheduled for Vladivostok, Russia.

He was scheduled to attend the second Global Tiger Summit convening in the city on coming Monday.

According to the Minister's Private Secretariat, the Minister decided to cancel his trip to Vladivostok, the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, the region in the Russian Far East, saying he needed to be at home at the moment to undertake some important works of the ministry and other related areas.

Few days ago, the Cabinet decided to send a delegation led by Minister Yadav to the global event. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who was also the Chair of National Tiger Conservation Committee earlier, directed the Ministry for active participation in the Summit.

It is said Bardiya National Park chief conservation officer Bishnu Prasad Shrestha, Chitwan National Park chief conservation officer Haribhadra Acharya and the National Trust for Nature Conservation's expert Naresh Subedi including other officials will be attending the Summit.

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