Kathmandu, July 29 The World Tiger Day was marked by organising various programmes across the country today. In Lalitpur, the government organised an interaction in coordination with conservation partners to raise awareness of tiger conservation. At the programme, participants expressed their worry about increasing incidents of human-wildlife conflict. Speaking at the programme, secretary at the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation Prakash Mathema urged all conservation partners to contribute to minimise human-wildlife conflict. He said as the tiger was on top of the ecological system, protection of the species automatically lead to protection of other animal and plant species.  The country marked the day with the slogan ‘Fresh ecology for tigers’ protection.’ Nepal has a total of 198 tigers, according to the tiger census carried out in 2013. The conference of the heads of 13 countries where tigers are available held at Saint Petersburg of Russia in 2010 took the decision to mark the World Tiger Day every year. As per The Global Tiger Recovery Plan, which was endorsed in the St Petersburg Declaration on Tiger conservation in 2010, Nepal committed to double its tiger population by 2022 from 121 to more than 250. Altogether 198 tigers were recorded in 2013, which was 63 per cent increase in its population compared to their number in 2009. Chitwan and Bardia national parks have a large number of tigers.