What is the status of tigers in the wild?
Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist for the World Wildlife Federation, perhaps said it best: “We are faced with a second ‘Inconvenient Truth:’ wild tigers are slipping away from us,” he said. “Tigers now survive in a mere 7 percent of their historic range and use 40 percent less area than was estimated in 1997.” Tigers still inhabiting their natural environments face a wide variety of threats, including human destruction of their habitat, poaching and a lack of natural food sources.
