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WWF - Tiger - Overview - 1 views

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Tigers animal

shared by Levi Yanover on 09 Nov 11 - Cached
  • all-time low
  • top of the food chain and one of the most culturally important and best-loved animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction
  • forced to compete for space
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  • , face unrelenting pressure from poaching
  • We are concentrating our efforts on protecting key landscapes where the big cats have the best chance of surviving and increasing over the long-term.
  • By saving tigers, we also save the biologically rich and diverse landscapes where they still roam — Asia’s last great rain forests, jungles and wild lands.
  • Russia’s prime minister convened a tiger summit where world leaders endorsed a bold plan to save tigers.
  • Three tiger subspecies - the Bali, Javan, and Caspian - have become extinct in the past 70 years.
  • six remaining subspecies - Amur, Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan, South China, and Sumatran - live only in Asia, and all are threatened by poaching and habitat loss.
  • In the 1940s the Amur tiger was on the brink of extinction, with no more than 40 tigers remaining in the wild.
  • Access to the areas where Indochinese tigers live is often restricted,
  • It is estimated that the South China tiger is functionally extinct.
  • WWF is working to ensure those strategies are successfully implemented so that tigers get a strong start on their road to recovery.
  • Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low.
  • Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low.
  • Hannah Sheffer on 09 Nov 11
     
    "Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low. The largest of all the Asian big cats may be on top of the food chain and one of the most culturally important and best-loved animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction." You can donate or "adopt" a tiger.
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