TIGER - Amazing Predator. Why Can't We Save The Tiger?

"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 little 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= 350-450 (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)
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
THANKS FOR WATCHING!
*All tiger footage filmed at Big Cat Rescue, Tampa, Fl. 2007
I finally saw my first wild tiger March 2012, in India, on my "SAFARI INDIA" series.
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