There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated

It's the Year of the Tiger, and there is some hope for the species.

An estimated 3,726 to 5,578 tigers currently live in the wild, up 40% from 2015, according to a new tiger assessment.

Improvements in monitoring the animals are the main reason for the increase.

Many governments in particular have moved heaven and earth to do massive scale surveys and that's one of the reasons for the 40% increase.

The Wildlife Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that works in roughly 60 countries to save wildlife and wild places.

Hunter attributes the increase in tiger numbers to an increase in government efforts to protect them.

The tigers are on the Red List, which is a list of species that are considered to be at risk of extinction.

Many parts of the world have seen a decline in the number of tigers due to habitat loss and other factors.

According to Hunter, tigers are highly valuable in the illegal wildlife trade.

Efforts to save tigers can benefit the areas and people within them.

He said that when you save tigers or conserve tigers, you are saving large wilderness landscapes with a lot of benefits to the human communities that live in and around them.

Hunter believes that these types of assessments show that tigers can recover from their decline.

"Expanding and connecting protected areas, ensuring they are effectively managed, and working with local communities living in and around tiger habitats are critical to protect the species."