Tigers and sea turtles recover with conservation efforts
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WWF reports that wild tiger numbers increased globally by over 70 percent in fifteen years.
In 2010, around 3,200 tigers lived in the wild, and fifteen years later, that number rose to approximately 5,700. Governments, conservationists, and local communities worked together to protect habitats, train park rangers, and fight poaching and illegal trade to achieve this recovery. Though tigers remain a threatened species and occupy less than 8 percent of their original range, the downward trend has reversed.
The green sea turtle also experienced a notable recovery. In 2025, it became the first sea turtle species moved off the international Red List from “threatened” to “not threatened” after fifty years of conservation work across approximately eighty countries. Conservationists protected nesting beaches, monitored nests and eggs, and modified fishing nets to prevent turtles from becoming entangled.
Monitored nesting sites saw the yearly number of recorded nests increase from about 419,000 in 2011 to 526,000 in 2024, a rise of over 25 percent. While some subpopulations of green sea turtles still face threats, WWF’s Living Planet Report 2026 finds that about half of the monitored animal populations worldwide are stable or increasing, despite a 73 percent average decline since 1970.
