India, May 20 -- India hosts nearly 70% of the world's wild tiger population. As tiger numbers grow, the government is trying to manage them with a landscape-level approach, Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav said in an interview with HT ahead of the first International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) Summit in New Delhi on June 1 and 2. Edited excerpts from interview:

What is the policy for dealing with tigers outside reserves?

India has been monitoring the tiger population within and outside tiger reserves through the four-yearly All India Tiger Estimation. The government, through the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), launched the project "Tiger outside Tiger Reserves" focusing on areas outside reserves with human-tiger in...