Ferida Wolff's Backyard: Tiger, Tiger
Editor's Note: We've included a portion of the report issued by Traffic, a strategic alliance of and ; Traffic is the wildlife trade monitoring network.
National Geographic carried an article, A Cry for the Tiger, with a photographic gallery in 2011: "We have the means to save the mightiest cat on Earth. But do we have the will?"
Tigers under threat
Today there are believed to be fewer than 2,500 breeding adult Tigers left in the wild, and their numbers are declining. Tigers are listed as Endangered by the IUCN. The greatest threats to Tigers are habitat loss, poaching and lack of sufficient prey.
Habitat loss
Once found across Asia, from Turkey to eastern Russia, over the past century Tigers have disappeared from south-west and central Asia, from Java and Bali in Indonesia and from large parts of South-east and East Asia. Tigers have lost 93% of their historic range, and more than 40% of their range in the last decade. Much of the remaining habitat is becoming increasingly fragmented.
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