Tiger siblings in Jim Corbett National Park © Sourabh Bharti/Getty Images

2024-07-29 in Uttarakhand India
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Tiger siblings in Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India (© Sourabh Bharti/Getty Images)

Roar and explore

We're off to a roaring start today: It's International Tiger Day, which aims to protect these magnificent big cats amid threats such as poaching and habitat loss. At the end of the 19th century, there were thought to be around 100,000 tigers in the wild; these days, there are fewer than 6,000.