Tigers
By: The Reptilian Brotherhood
Tigers and Their Habitats
Tigers are the largest of all Asian cants, and live in the Tropical rainforests, evergreen forests, temperate forests, mangrove swamps, grasslands, and savannas.
Sumatran Tigers
Sumatran tigers are the smallest of their species and only have around four to five hundred members. These tigers live in Borneo and Sumatra, in tropical broadleaf evergreen forests, tropical swamp forests, and peat swamps. These tigers are important because of where they live, the island of Sumatra is the only place where lions, tigers, elephants, and orangutans live together, and Sumatran tigers are crucial to the biodiversity. Considered critically endangered.
Amur Tiger
Amur tigers are the largest of their species, and have around 540 in their species. Amur tigers were brought back from the brink of extinction by effort made by Russia when there was only about 40 animals left in the wild. These tigers live in the temperate forests of Amur-Heilong, and can grow up to 10 feet and weigh up to 660 feet. Are considered endangered.
Indochinese Tiger
This subspecies of tiger is considered endangered, and lives in the tropical and subtropical forests as well as the dry forests of Greater Mekong. Due to the rampant poaching of these tigers, but there is hope that we can introduce tigers to different regions of this biome, where there is minimum deforesting and human impact where tigers can thrive. Two main threats posed to the Indochinese tigers are the loss of habitat and poaching.
South China Tiger
this tiger is considered to be extinct in the wild du to rampant poaching in the early 1900s, in the 1970s the Chinese government banned the hunting of tigers, and even then there we 30-80 tigers left.
Bengal Tiger
The Bengal tiger is endangered and has more than 2,500 members in its subspecies. Loves in the dry and wet deciduous forests, grasslands and temperate forests, and mangrove forests and can grow up to 10 feet long. The bengal tiger is primarily found in India and is the most numerous of all the tiger subspecies.
Malayan Tiger
The Malayan tiger is is considered endangered with about 250-350 members, and it lives in the tropical moist broadleaf forests. Their scientific name honors a famous tiger conservationist named Peter Jackson. Malayan tigers are the only species of tiger found on the Malay Peninsula.
Tiger Poaching
Tiger poaching is a big problem that endangers all tigers. The high demand for this animal's skins causes poachers to push the punishments of a high fee and jail time. Although protection has been increased there are always a few twisted human beings who slip through the cracks and kill these majestic creatures.
Habitat Destruction
The tiger's habitat is being reduced by people cutting down the forests that the tiger lives in. Due to high demand for things that require wood, such as paper and furniture, pushes suppliers to cut down forests to satisfy the public.
Human Encroachm-ent
People are building the in habitats that are already being reduced, and this is causing the tigers to have even less habitat than they already do. Another problem with this is retaliatory killings that happen when humans feel the need to get revenge on an animal they think has done them wrong.