High risk tigers

The recent economic growth in Asia may have contributed to the increase in the illegal trade in tiger parts

The news just keeps getting worse and worse for the world's biggest cats. Not only are they in danger of extinction due to illegal hunting and the destruction of their natural habitat, but a study published in the June issue of the journal BioScience reports that 40% of the tiger's natural habitat has disappeared over the past 10 years, leaving in fact only 7% of the habitat area The originals of the tiger.

Today there are only about 5,000 individuals in the wild, scattered from the Russian Far East to India. The estimated population size of the tigers about 100 years ago numbered about 100,000 individuals, which means that today the population stands at only 5% of its original size!

Recent economic growth in Asia may have contributed to the increase in the illegal trade in tiger parts, researchers say. Other factors that harm them are only light penalties for illegal hunting as well as agriculture and the development of projects that encroach on the territories of the tigers.

In the video, she wrote about the illegal hunting of tigers, tiger breeding farms and the need to put pressure on the Chinese government to prevent trade in tiger parts.