New Delhi, July 11 -- Entering new record books for being the largest camera-trap wildlife survey, India's tiger estimation for the year 2018, on July 11, was awarded the Guinness World Record.

The Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar took it to the micro-blogging site Twitter and tweeted, "Under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, India fulfilled its resolve to double tiger numbers 4 years before the target through #SankalpSeSiddhi. The All India Tiger Estimation is now in the #GuinnessWorldRecord for being the largest camera-trap #wildlife survey, a great moment indeed & a shining example of #AatmanirbharBharat!"

India, in 2018, had as many as 2,967 tigers, with more than half of them in Madhya Pradesh a...