Weight: to pounds. Size relative to a 6-ft man:. Least Concern Extinct. Current Population Trend: Decreasing. This photo was submitted to Your Shot, our photo community on Instagram. Follow us on Instagram at natgeoyourshot or visit us at natgeo. Share Tweet Email. Go Further.
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Meet the people trying to help. Much of this decline has occurred in the past decade. These beautiful, powerful cats inhabit diverse landscapes, from rainforests to grasslands, savannahs to mangrove forests and high-elevation habitats, so they play an important role in many ecosystems that supply nature and people with water, food and room to roam.
As top predators in the food chain, tigers help keep their habitats balanced by preying on other animals, mainly herbivores. Too many herbivores would lead to overgrazing and degradation of the ecosystem.
Tigers also drive economies. Where tigers exist, tourists go. And where tourists go, money can be made by communities with few alternatives for income. Tiger conservation projects help provide alternative livelihoods for rural communities. To safeguard tigers, we need to protect large swaths of forest across Asia where they live. By protecting these biologically diverse places, we can also preserve many other endangered species that live there.
And, forests protected for tigers are known to store more carbon than other habitat types, helping to mitigate climate change. The most immediate threat to wild tigers is poaching. The Bali tiger, the Caspian tiger and the Javan tiger did not survive intensive hunting, poaching and deforestation. Only in did authorities realize the scope of this catastrophic decline, and measures were put in place to prevent the species from completely dying out.
Between and , the Bengal tiger population dropped from 40,, to under 2, This alarming decline has now slowed, thanks to a conservation program that enabled the creation of protected habitats.
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