«If we get everything done in this declaration, we will turn
tiger populations around so in fact it's a positive not a negative,» Seidensticker said.
Not exact matches
«This is how we will monitor
tiger populations and how they move
around the landscape in the future,» predicts George Amato, director of the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
And with the
tiger population having dwindled to
around 1,000 breeding females worldwide — due mainly to poaching and human conflict — there is worry that the virus could add to the cats» troubles.
In this video, WWF explains how consumer demand for
tiger parts and furs have led to a decrease in wild
tiger populations from
around 100,000 to just an estimated 3,200 today.
By the 1980s, the Amur
tiger population had increased to
around 500.