Sentences with phrase «largest tiger habitat»

Times News Network: Will Sunderbans, the world's largest tiger habitat, survive a century later?

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If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

WCS Russia Program Director Dale Miquelle stated that «Like many large carnivores, tigers face an array of serious threats throughout their range, including poaching (of tigers themselves and of their prey), habitat loss, and conflict with local people.

They found that there are now only two habitats large enough to host more than 30 breeding females, an indicator of viable tiger populations over the long term.

One of the largest protected wildlife habitats in Maharashtra, Tadoba is famous for its growing population of the Bengal tigers.

The Amur tiger is the largest cat in the world, reports the Huffington Post, and until the early 20th Century, when habitat loss from human invasion and poaching drove the cats to near extinction, they lived across China, Korea, and Russia.

Riau was chosen for the study because it is home to vast peatlands estimated to hold Southeast Asia's largest store of carbon, and contains some of the most critical habitat for Sumatran elephants and tigers.

Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.