How many tigers die each year

In and , respectively, and wild tigers died in India, although the death toll was somewhat less severe last year at The predators often get killed by people in so-called revenge killings or poached for their body parts by wildlife smugglers. Nor is it always easy to gauge the extent of tiger poaching, which means that many other tiger deaths may remain unknown and so go unrecorded in India. But since tiger poachers make off with the entire animal, hey do not leave behind any trace.

Often, the only way to know when a tiger has been killed by poachers is during the seizures of illegally obtained tiger parts from wildlife traffickers. Tigers also drive economies. Where tigers exist, tourists go. And where tourists go, money can be made by communities with few alternatives for income.

Tiger conservation projects help provide alternative livelihoods for rural communities. To safeguard tigers, we need to protect large swaths of forest across Asia where they live. By protecting these biologically diverse places, we can also preserve many other endangered species that live there. And, forests protected for tigers are known to store more carbon than other habitat types, helping to mitigate climate change. The most immediate threat to wild tigers is poaching.

Their body parts are in relentless demand for traditional medicine and are status symbols within some Asian cultures. Resources for guarding protected areas where tigers live are usually limited.

People and tigers increasingly compete for space. Tigers have lost 93 per cent of their historical range due to human activity and development. As forests shrink and prey becomes scarce, tigers are forced to hunt domestic livestock, which many local communities depend on for their livelihoods.

In retaliation, tigers are killed or captured. Your support makes a big difference towards our work to help recover tiger populations.

Donate adopt. WWF is collecting postal codes so we can send you news and invitations most relevant to your area. Skins are the single most frequently seized tiger part, with on average 58 whole tiger skins seized each year, the report found, also noting a clear increase in seizures of whole animals, both dead and alive.

It accounted for The study also highlighted the growing role breeding centres play in fuelling the illegal tiger trade, especially in Southeast Asia. The tiger farm industry often argues that the trade in captive animals helps to relieve the pressure on wild felines, but wildlife groups say it reduces the stigma around buying the animals or their body parts and could create new markets for them.

More than half of tiger seizures in Thailand and a third of those in Vietnam over the past two 20 years were identified as coming from captive breeding facilities, TRAFFIC said.

Published On 22 Aug