Pilibhit Tiger Reserve gets global award ‘TX2’ for doubling tiger population

The Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR), situated in the Pilibhit district and Shahjahanpur District of Uttar Pradesh has won the first-ever international award, TX2, along with the state Forest department, for doubling the number of tigers.
TX2 stands for ‘Tigers times two’, signalling the goal to double wild tigers.
PTR is the first to receive the award among all the 13 tiger range countries. (India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.)
It achieved the goal of doubling the tiger’s population in just four years, against the target of 10 years.
In 2014, PTR had 25 tigers which went up to 65 in 2018.
The TX2 goal is a global commitment to double the world’s wild tigers by 2022.
In 2010, all 13 tiger range governments came together for the first time at the St Petersburg Summit where they committed to double the number of wild tigers by 2022.
The global target of doubling the tiger population was set by the partners in TX2 award which includes UNDP, Global Tiger Forum, International Union for Conservation of Nature, World Wide Fund for Nature, Conservation Assured/Tiger Standards and the Lion’s Share.