With the birth of four cubs, the tiger population in Rajasthan’s Sariska Tiger Reserve has risen to 40. Indian Forest officer Parveen Kaswan posted a photo of a tigress with her playful cubs on X and wrote, “That proud mother and picture which makes every conservationist happy,” expressing his happiness. Sariska’s ST22 is the mother of four cubs. Sariska’s remarkable conservation success story—from zero tigers to forty tigers in sixteen years—is truly inspiring. Fantastic work by the officers and ground crew.”

The post soon went viral and has gathered over 50,000 views with social media users congratulation the IFS officers and the ground staff on their conservation efforts.

A user wrote, “Here’s a post that fills one up with joy! More striped monks.”

“Great work of conservation,” another user wrote on X.

“Beautiful sight to witness,” the third user commented.

Earlier, Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma also shared the news on X. He wrote, “We welcome the new guests to Sariska.”

There has been a major increase in the number of tigers in Sariska as their strength has reached 40 with tigress ‘ST 22’ giving birth to four cubs, the chief minister said.

Sharing the video of the cubs, he said the fourth cub of tigress ‘ST 12’ was also captured in the camera trap and added that three of her cubs were spotted in March. He said after the rehabilitation of tigers in 2008, tigress ‘ST 12’ gave birth for the first time.

“Our government is fully committed to the conservation of the tiger, the symbol of speed and power, and to maintain a balanced ecosystem for them,” he added in his post.

The Sariska Sanctuary is spread over 1,213.34 square kilometres in the Aravalli Hills, the oldest mountain range in the world.