Double Tigers | Initiatives | WWF - World Wildlife Fund The year 2016 marked the halfway point of Tx2, with wild tigers recorded at around 3,900 Our vision is to ensure the survival of wild tigers WWF is dedicated to achieving the ambitious global goal of 6,000+ wild tigers To make that a reality, we need to protect, restore, and connect tiger habitat, end the illegal wildlife trade—including
How India Brought Tigers Back from the Brink—And What It . . . Why Are Tigers Thriving in Some Areas and Vanishing in Others? A massive study tracking tigers across 138,200 square kilometers (that’s larger than the entire state of New York!) found a clear pattern: 🔹 Where Tigers Flourish: Protected areas with plenty of wild prey (like deer and boars) Regions with stable economies and low conflict
Connectivity of Tiger (Panthera tigris) Populations in the . . . Today, most wild tigers live in small, isolated Protected Areas within human dominated landscapes in the Indian subcontinent Future survival of tigers depends on increasing local population size, as well as maintaining connectivity between populations While significant conservation effort has been invested in increasing tiger population size, few initiatives have focused on landscape-level
DNA Reveals the Origin Stories of America’s Captive Tigers In 2020, the Netflix documentary series “Tiger King” introduced the world to America’s large population of captive tigers Estimates by experts suggest there may be as many as 7,000 of the
Responsible tiger safaris There are only around 5,500 tigers left in the wild, worldwide There are several issues relating to tiger safaris and to the endangered nature of the species generally One is the high value put on tigers’ body parts Their pelts used to be the big seller, but now it is their parts, mostly used in traditional Chinese medicine
ADW: Panthera tigris: INFORMATION Male Indochinese tigers (P t corbetti), though smaller than Siberian tigers in body size at 2 85 meters in length and 195 kg, have the longest skull of all tiger subspecies, measuring 319 to 365 mm Sumatran tigers (P t sumatrae) are the smallest living subspecies Male Sumatran tigers measure 2 34 meters and weigh 136 kg; females measure 1