Tiger populations are dwindling due to poaching and habitat destruction

This report from the Washington Post speaks on the plight of the world’s tiger population:

The world’s tiger population has been greatly affected by poaching and habitat loss.
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Photojournalist Steve Winter spent a decade photographing tigers in the wild in Asia. In 2007, when his life partner, writer Sharon Guynup, joined him for an assignment in India’s Kaziranga National Park, they both came away concerned about the fate of these great animals.

A century ago, more than 100,000 tigers roamed across 24 Asian countries, from Turkey to Indonesia. Today, they have disappeared from most of their historic range, and poaching, deforestation and a huge Chinese market for tiger parts (which are used in traditional Chinese medicine and as luxury items) have reduced their numbers to no more than 3,200. “We realized that tigers are almost gone, and no one seems to recognize that,” Guynup said.

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