WHERE DO TIGERS LIVE?

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We know that tigers are territorial, generally solitary, and require large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey requirements.

However, as they are also indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on earth, wild tiger populations have caused significant conflict with their human neighbours. Because of this, tiger populations - as well that their habitats - have been in decline for decades.

Tigers once ranged widely across Asia, and from Turkey in the west to the eastern coast of Russia. But disastrously, over the past 100 years, they have lost 93% of their historic range, and have been extirpated from southwest and central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and from large areas of Southeast and Eastern Asia! The main reasons behind their dramatic population decline include habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and poaching by hunters for their body parts and pelts.

Today, they range from the Siberian taiga to open grasslands and tropical mangrove swamps. The extent of area occupied by tigers is now estimated at less than 1,184,911 km2 (457,497 sq mi), a 41% decline from the area estimated in the mid-1990s.

Unfortunately it is now probably far too late to turn back the tide of tiger decline as the world has already lost three sub-species of tiger. However, there is some good news as the remaining six tiger subspecies have now been classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

The global population in the wild is now estimated to only number between 3,062 to 3,948 individuals, with most of the remaining populations only occurring in small pockets isolated from each other. If circumstances do not change radically over the next few years, then we could be one of the last generations to see tigers in the wild.

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Based on an article by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger
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