Tigers Worldwide at Risk of Extinction-In Bangladesh Only 100 Remain

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Man is known in scientific circles as the “weedy species” meaning that wherever we take root we choke out the existing flora and fauna.  We rape the land, murder the animals, and move on to the next part of the world.  This is what people did in Bangladesh.

Bengal Tiger. Credit: a-z-animals.com
Bengal Tiger. Credit: a-z-animals.com

From TrueActivist:

A new survey reveals that the endangered tigers of Bangladesh are far more at risk for extinction than previously thought.

A recent survey conducted by Agency France-Presse (AFP) reveals that only 100 tigers are left to freely roam the Sundarban forests of Bangladesh, the largest mangrove forest in the world. This number is a startling drop from the 440 tigers recorded during the previous census in 2004.

The year-long survey, which ended in April, captured footage from hidden cameras to determine the true numbers, and ended up estimating that between 83 and 130 tigers presently exist. This census is thought to be more accurate compared to the last, which used paw prints and pug marks to determine the number of tigers abounding in the wild.

“So plus or minus we have around 106 tigers in our parts of the Sundarbans,” Tapan Kumar Dey, the Bangladesh government’s wildlife conservator, told AFP. “It’s a more accurate figure.”

In 2014, a similar census found that there are least 2,226 tigers in neighboring Indian forests – a stark contrast to Bangladesh’s numbers. In fact, the number of tigers in the South Asian country is up 500 from the census carried out four years ago.

Monirul Khan, a renowned zoology professor at Bangladesh’s Jahangirnagar University, as well as the nation’s foremost tiger expert, ran his own study and found that there are no more than 200 tigers living in the wild. Khan also says that the government needs to do more to protect the animals from poaching and their habitat from destruction through development.

Read more at True Activist.

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Marsha Woerner
8 years ago

We need to take care of tigers in the wild, and we need to stop reading and selling them for sale for individuals’ backyard cages! We take such poor care of animals in our charge, and we don’t even recognize it! Tigers are bred and used as props for individuals who want to have a baby tiger, and then they’re sold for canned hunts and backyard cages! And people say they’re breeding these cubs to help with their preservation! You probably shouldn’t get me started!
And today is International Tiger Day! We all need to pay attention a to the fate of these magnificent creatures!

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