Hunting Wild Animals To Extinction - How Can We Stop It? Attacked, the tiger faced poachers, legal hunters, and the Russian army Ordered to exterminate the tiger population near the Caspian sea, sacrificing the existence of tigers was a way to clear land for rice and cotton fields Caspian tigers belong to the Siberian tiger family and became extinct around 1954 to 1959 Some rare sightings occur
Tigers, Captive and Wild: A Dangerous Connection While roughly 3,900 tigers remain in the wild, an estimated 5,000 tigers live in captivity in the US Only about 6% of these captive tigers reside in accredited zoos—the rest are privately owned This is not conservation Learn how the existence of captive tigers endangers the survival of wild tigers, and what WWF is doing to change that
Satellite data gives tiger conservation a boost - EarthSky The good news is that scientists estimate there are about 3,700 to 5,500 wild tigers left However, their habitat is still declining In the past two decades, they’ve lost about 11% more territory
How Do Zoos Help Endangered Animals? - Scientific American To be selected as the focus of an SSP, a species must be endangered or threatened in the wild Also, many SSP species are “flagship species,” meaning that they are well-known to people and
Royal Bengal Tiger - Vanishing Treasures There are five extent sub-species of tigers in the wild today The South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) occurs only in captivity The Royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is the most numerous of all the sub-species and inhabits Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal Of the approximately 2,500 Royal Bengal tigers in the world