International Tiger Day is celebrated annually on July 29.
This day is also celebrated as Awareness Day to prevent the destruction caused due to poaching.
It is due to poaching and destruction of forests that the number of tigers has dropped significantly in various countries.
India currently accounts for 70 percent of the total tiger population in the world.
The theme for world tiger day 2022 “India launches Project Tiger to revive the tiger population”.
It was in 2010, at the Tiger Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, that the idea of ‘International Tiger Day’ came p and it was decided that it would be celebrated every year on 29 July.