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GOOD NEWS SUNDAY

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Good news! This week it showed up in a Nepali jungle, a Ugandan savanna, a Spanish scrubland, a Philadelphia hospital room, and the open Atlantic.

NEPAL’S WILD TIGER POPULATION

In 2009, Nepal counted 121 wild tigers left in the entire country. This July, its fifth national tiger census found 429. That’s not a modest recovery. It’s the fastest sustained big-cat comeback recorded almost anywhere in the world, built on roughly 5 percent growth every year for over a decade. The census team deployed more than 3,600 motion-triggered cameras across five protected…

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