Tiger

Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low. The largest of all the big cats may be on top of the food chain and one of the most culturally important and best-loved animals, but they are also close to extinction. Tigers are forced to compete for space with dense human populations, face unrelenting pressure from poaching, retaliatory killings and habitat loss across their range.

We can save wild tigers. WWF has set a bold but achievable goal of Tx2: which means doubling the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, when the next Year of the Tiger is celebrated.
By saving tigers, we also save the biologically rich and diverse landscapes where they still roam — Asia’s last great rain forests, jungles and wild lands. These forests are home to thousands of other species, people and the food, freshwater and flood protection that local communities need to survive.

Three tiger subspecies - the Bali, Javan, and Caspian - have become extinct in the past 70 years. The six remaining subspecies - Amur, Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan, South China, and Sumatran - live only in Asia, and all are threatened by poaching and habitat loss.