“Thanks for this, it is indeed a good coverage on the issue.”
Sujoy Banerjee
Director -Conservation Programme WWF-INDIA
“Your video is great.”- Wong Jim Fong WILD ASIA
“Many thanks, It is the support of people like you that makes us battle on in these critical times for wildlife. Videos like yours can help spread awareness – the key to putting governments under pressure and changing policies.”
Ritu Khanna WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOCIETY OF INDIA.
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*Dedicated to those guards who put their life on the line for low pay to protect the tiger and its habitat.
Total captive tiger numbers= 10,000 +/- in various situations. (most are Amur/Bengal mixed)
Tiger numbers in the wild:
(based on the most recent and factual data I could find)
BENGAL TIGER= 1,200-1,450 (S.Asia: India) Low numbers due to loss of habitat with population boom, need for agriculture, illegal hunting, and poor protection.
AMUR/ SIBERIAN TIGER= 400-500 (E. Asia: Russia, N.E. China) Low numbers due to illegal hunting in vast unprotected habitat as well legal hunting killing off their natural prey. Logging companies (some mafia influenced, clearing forest)
INDOCHINESE TIGER= 700-1,200 (S.E. Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia) Low numbers due to fragmented habitat, devastation of forest for palm oil production, illegal hunting and poor protection.
SUMATRAN TIGER= 300-350 (W. Indonesia: Sumatra) Low numbers due to loss of habitat, illegal hunting and poor protection.
MALAYAN TIGER= 400-600 (S.E. Asia: Malaysia, Thailand) *decleared a separate subspecies from the Indochinese tiger in 2004. Low numbers due to loss of habitat from logging and agriculture.
SOUTH CHINA TIGER= 10? (S.China) declared extinct in 2003. (One photo recently taken is being called a hoax.) Low numbers due to China’s waiting until 1977 to outlaw hunting. No protection from illegal hunting. Loss of habitat.
(A captive born male S. China tiger was born 11-23-07 in Africa)
WHAT I THINK WILL SAVE THE WILD TIGER:
Letting U.S. corporations know that we want to be aware where our resources like Palm Oil come from. Our government letting China know we are unhappy with their wildlife policies (namely tiger parts used in traditional medicine) and poor protection of their endangered animals.
Better protection for the tigers in their native habitats and their prey species by properly arming and funding the anti-poaching units, and better regulations allowing them to search for illegal trade. Less corrupt local governments to allow the people a chance at an economy that doesn’t rely on illegal trade or over farming the land.
More funding being sent over, possibly a tiger tax on all that own/exhibit tigers to go towards their conservation.
For more info:
http://www.tigrisfoundation.nl
http://wildlifealliance.org
http://www.wildasia.net
http://www.iucn.org
http://www.cawtglobal.org
http://www.wpsi-india.org
http://www.tigertrust.info
http://www.defenders.org
http://www.savethetigerfund.org
http://www.wwf.org
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*All tiger footage filmed at Big Cat Rescue, Tampa, Fl.
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November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Technically, you …
since, you are no longer alive to own it. xD
Technically, you wouldn’t have one if u died for it ..
But If you’d die to save them from extinction, that would be dieing for a good cause.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Blame Disney!
Blame Disney!
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
we can’t save them …
we can’t save them because of chinese superstitious barbarians who created a market selling and trading dead tigers. Give tigers the same rights as humans, and prosecute poachers as murderers, who if convicted would face years in jail… it’s that simple.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
People been hatin …
People been hatin on tigers since the Jungle Book…
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
about 2000 left and …
about 2000 left and over 500 in america as private pets wat the fcuk
makes you think about the double edged sword
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Excellent point. …
Excellent point. Luckily though, after the earth kills us all off it’ll have plenty of time to regrow animals population.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Humans and wild …
Humans and wild animals cannot live and both coexist in the same world it’s like the old saying two captains cannot stare one ship.. we are in dead competition with the animals who first evolved on this planet and we can’t both live in peace one’s gotta go and by this rate it looks like it’s the animals soon enough we will have nothing but humans on this planet before it dies.. we can barely live with our own species with all the problems race have caused..
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
you can keep one if …
you can keep one if it doesn’t kill you!!
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
what a majestic …
what a majestic creature. Id die to have one.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I love tigers but i …
I love tigers but i am very pessimistic about their future as they are not enough living in the wild! It’s not healthy to keep them in the zoo or any form of captivity, but we know it’s the only way to help preserve them now. In aisa, they lost their natural habitats and they got hunted and turned into commercial goods. If using sicence to help populated them but soon each tiger will be related to each other.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I agree, we are a …
I agree, we are a plague.