Despite their beauty and iconic status, tigers are in great danger. Of the nine tiger species, three are already extinct and the remaining six are at risk of the same fate.
Over the last century, tiger habitats have fallen by around 95 percent, and there are now fewer than 4,000 tigers alive in the wild, reports the World Wildlife Federation (WWF). This catastrophic population decline is driven by a range of threats, including poaching for the illegal wildlife trade, overhunting of prey species by local people, habitat loss and fragmentation, and human-tiger conflict.
If we don’t do something immediately to protect and preserve the remaining population, all tigers may become extinct in the wild within the next decade.