Recent death was recorded in MP
India's tiger conservation Department said 126 of the endangered big cats died in 2021, the highest number in a decade.
On Wednesday, the most recent death was recorded in MP, according to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
India is home to around 75 percent of the total world's tigers.
Two years ago, the government announced the population had risen to 2,967 in 2018 from a record low of 1,411 in 2006, an achievement hailed as "historic" by PM Narendra Modi.
This may have been partly down to the survey size, however, which used an unprecedented number of camera traps to identify individual tigers using stripe pattern recognition software.
Over the past decade the biggest cause of death was recorded by the NTCA as being "natural causes", but many also fell victim to poachers and "human-animal conflict."
Human encroachment on tiger habitats has increased in recent decades in the country of 1.3 billion people.
According to government data, 225 people were killed in tiger attacks in between 2014 to 2019.
The government has made efforts to manage the tiger population on a better note, however, reserving 50 habitats across the country for the animals.
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