Sentences with phrase «remaining tiger populations»

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If tigers in the western group remain isolated, «that population, if you ask me, looks like it's headed toward extinction,» says population geneticist Uma Ramakrishnan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore.

NEW DELHI, March, 28 2011 — The Indian Government today released new tiger population numbers for the first time since 2007, indicating that numbers have increased in the country that has half of the world's remaining wild tigers.

Rabinowitz makes two points which really make you sit up: 1) conservation groups really need to be held accountable for their efforts at big cat conservation, and 2) even with massively reduced habitat tiger populations could be ten times higher than they are today.Rabinowitz says that the world's 2500 - 3000 wild tigers live on just 5 - 7 % of their former range, but even that small about of remaining habitat «could probably hold up to 30,000 tigers right now at reasonable densities.»

While recognizing that the long - term goal is to conserve an Asia - wide network of large, tiger - permeable landscapes, the immediate priority must be to ensure that the last remaining breeding populations are protected and continuously monitored.

With hindsight, it also became clear that protection and management of many reserves remained inadequate (the extirpation of tigers in the Indian tiger reserves of Sariska, reported in 2004, and Panna, reported in 2010, is illustrative) and this, coupled with an increased demand for tiger parts [12], meant that poaching of tigers and prey decimated populations across Asia, both inside and outside reserves.