There was once 8 subspecies of tiger in the wild. Today there are only 5 subspecies remaining. Our best estimates suggest that there are between 5,000 to 7,000 wild tigers remaining today. There are about 1,200 zoo tigers as well. That is as large as the numbers go for the remaining 5 subspecies of the largest cat in the world. Considering a tiger is poached everyday in India doesn't give much hope, does it? Scientists now estimate that by 2010 wild tigers will be extinct.
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Please don't stand idly by and watch these magnificent creatures perish...
We found a very educational website about the great work, Mr. Kishor Rithe is doing in India to save the Tiger project: http://www.satpuda.org
The Tigers most known predator would be the humans, as we are poaching for illegal fur. The Bengal tiger is the most common subspecies of tiger, constituting approximately 80% of the entire tiger population, and is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and India and it has also been hunted in the following countries. Poaching in India started when the British empire ruled India in 1858 to 1947 and even after it was known to be a sport and continued, and therefor the tiger has always been a head start in the endangered species for cats. Tigers have always been a kids favorite animal or favorite cat but the Tiger is facing extinction and after all it is the largest big cat of the four big cats in the genus Panthera. The tiger is a member of the Feldae family. It can reach up to 4 metres (13 ft) in total length and weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds), the larger the tiger subspecies are comparable in size to the biggest extinct felids. But the Tiger doesn´t always face extinction by poaching in fact it becomes endangered because their local habitat get destroyed. The largest subspecies of tigers is the Siberian tiger. The Tiger that is getting most endnagered would turn out to be the Bengal tiger. These are the all the tigers which should be helped or some that have already faced the threat of extinction; Bengal tiger, Indochinese tiger, Siberian Tiger, Malayan tiger, Sumatran tiger, South china tiger, Balinese tiger (already faced extinction), Caspian tiger (already faced extinction), Javan tiger (already faced extinction). |  This is a picture taken by our uncle "Praveen Pardeshi" who loves the wildlife as much as we do. Even more he has also inspired us to this project on endangered species.
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