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  2. Sadly, tigers are on the brink of extinction. Just over a century ago, 100,000 wild tigers roamed across Asia. Today, approximately 5,600 live in a mere five per cent of their historic range. The largest tiger population can now be found in India, home to half of all remaining wild tigers.

  3. A new study of tiger-population dynamics led by biologist John Kenney of the University of Minnesota suggests that even moderate poaching makes extinction a virtual certainty once a tiger...

  4. Gland, Switzerland - Indonesia is set to lose its last-remaining tiger species — the Sumatran tiger — if the widespread illegal trade in tiger parts and rampant habitat loss is not stopped, according to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, and WWF.

  5. Jul 14, 2024 · CNN —. A recent spate of alarming deaths has heightened fears for the Malayan tiger, wildlife authorities and conservationists say, with some calling the threat to Malaysia’s emblematic animal ...

  6. Jul 21, 2022 · New York, NY - In a tremendous turning point for a species on the brink of extinction, the global tiger population has stabilized and potentially increased, according to the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species Assessment, led by Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization ...

  7. The continental tigers currently include the Bengal, Malayan, Indochinese and Amur (Siberian) tiger populations, while the Caspian tiger is extinct in the wild. The South China tiger is believed to be functionally extinct.

  8. Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) are on the brink of extinction due to habitat destruction, human-tiger conflict, and poaching. They once roamed throughout the Sunda Islands in Western Indonesia, however now only a few remain on the island of Sumatra.