If you are facing man- animal conflict in your backyard be on your guard as tiger census states the number of the big cats is on the rise in the State. As per the census 2014 in Uttarakhand, tiger population is 340 while it was 227 in 2010. It means tiger population has grown by 113 over the past four years. Uttarakhand is now second after Karnataka in terms of the big cat figure. Karnataka has 406 tigers as per the census. State Forest Minister Dinesh Aggrawal informed this in Dehradun on Tuesday.