Prayas Session Save the Tiger Kunal Ghosh

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Presented By Kunal Ghosh

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Unusual Facts about Tiger
Numbers Past and Present
Current Tiger Census in India
Reasons of Fading Fast
Possible Solutions
Why Should You Care About
Tigers?
WWF’S Goal
Conclusion

 Despite not being strongly adapted to the dark, tigers’ night vision is
about six times better than humans.
 Most tigers have yellow eyes, but white tigers usually have blue eyes,
due to the gene for blue eyes being linked to the gene for white fur.
Tigers scratch trees and use their urine to mark their territories.
Their urine smells strongly of buttered popcorn.
Tigers can tell the age, gender, and reproductive condition of other
tigers by subtleties in the smell of urine markings.
Male tigers have larger territories than females, so that the areas overlap
and the tigers can mate.
Tigers do not normally roar at other animals, but instead they roar to
communicate with far-off tigers.

The stripes on each tiger are unique, like human fingerprints.
The markings on a tiger’s forehead closely resemble the Chinese
character for king, giving tigers a cultural status as a regal
animal.

 Unlike almost all other big cats, tigers are adept swimmers. They enjoy
bathing and often play in the water when young. As adults, they often swim
several kilometers to hunt or to cross rivers, and at least one has been
recorded to have swum almost 30km in a day.

Tigresses are fertile for a period of only four or five days throughout the
entire year. During this time, they mate frequently. They are pregnant for a little
over three months, and usually give birth to two or three cubs.
Tigers prefer to hunt large prey by ambush. If you look at a tiger, it is less
likely to attack, as it has lost the element of surprise.
Tigers do not normally view humans as prey, but will attack if threatened.
A small number of tigers develop a taste for human flesh and become man-eaters.
Only one in ten tiger hunts are successful, so tigers typically go several days
without eating before gorging themselves on over 30kg of meat after a
triumphant hunt.

Tigers are completely blind for the first week of their life. About half
do not survive to adulthood.
To show happiness, tigers squint or close their eyes. This is because
losing vision lowers defense, so tigers (and many other cats) only purposefully
do so when they feel comfortable and safe.

In China, poaching tigers or using them for traditional medicine has been illegal for
many years and is punishable with death. Unfortunately, tigers are still poached in
some areas of Southeast Asia for consumption in traditional medicines, especially in
Laos and Cambodia.
There are six subspecies of tiger living today: the Siberian tiger , the South
China tiger , the Indochinese tiger , the Malayan tiger, the Sumatran tiger ,
and the Bengal tiger .
Tigers live for about 25 years both in captivity and in the wild and Tigers have
a brain that weighs over 300g.
Tigers are solitary animals and only group together either when permitted by a
large kill or in the case of a mother with cubs.
Tigers have color vision like humans.
Tigers can mate with lions and other cats in captivity to produce hybrids.

Indochinese Tiger at Berlin Zoo, Germany, South China Tiger

A century ago there were 100,000 tigers roaming the forests, swamps, and
tundra of Asia. TODAY, there are as few as 3,200 left in the wild. Only 7%
of historic tiger habitat still contains.
At this rate, wild tigers will be extinct in just a few decades.

 India's tiger population increases by 30% in past three years; country
now has 2,226 tigers — which has 70% of the world tiger population. The
population of tigers has increased in India from 1,706 in 2011 to 2,226 in
2014.

 Consumer demand for tiger parts poses the largest threat to tiger survival.
Tigers are being hunted to extinction by poachers for their skins, bones, teeth and
claws, which are highly valued for their use in traditional Asian medicine (TAM),
various folk remedies and various products. The wildlife trade network, TRAFFIC,
found that for the past two years, the smuggled parts from at least 200 tigers have
been confiscated per year by law enforcement in Asia. In the past 10 years, over
1000 tigers have been killed to traffic their parts to meet consumer
demand in Asia. In 1993 the Chinese government banned the trade and use of tiger
parts, but cultural belief in the power of tiger parts remains.
 Parts from a single tiger can fetch as much as $50,000 on the black market,
making the poaching of these magnificent creatures very alluring to criminal
networks.
 Claws, teeth and whiskers are believed to provide good luck and
protective powers. And tiger skins and tiger bone wine are valued as status
symbols.

Despite the fact that all international commercial trade of tigers has been banned since
1987, some countries allow the breeding of captive tigers on a commercial scale. One of
the world’s largest populations of tigers exists not in the wild—but in captivity in the
United States. With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger population exceeds
the approximately 3,200 tigers in the wild.

 Less than 100 years ago, tigers roamed across most of Asia.
Their territory stretched from eastern Turkey to the Russian
Far East, extending northward to Siberia and southward into
Bali. In a relatively short period of time, humans have caused
tigers to disappear from 93% of their former range and
destroyed much of their habitat.
 The world’s forests are lost at a rate of as many as 36
football fields a minute.
 In the last 25 years, the island of Sumatra (home to the
Sumatran tiger) has lost 50% of its forest cover.

As the human population grows, we are encroaching further into tiger habitat,
causing increased competition between tigers and people over living space
and food. Local communities surrounding tiger habitats depend on
forests for firewood, fodder and timber. As habitats shrink and more people enter
the forest, the number of tiger attacks is rising.
Tigers are struggling to find
adequate food and often end up
hunting domestic livestock
that local communities depend
on for their livelihoods. When
this happens many communities
retaliate, SOMETIMES killing
the offending tiger or capturing
it and sending it to a zoo. Tigers
killed as “conflict” animals
often end up for sale in the
black market.

 The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental
organization founded on April 29, 1961, and is working on issues regarding the
conservation, research and restoration of the environment.
WWF has a bold plan to galvanize political will, dedicate WWF resources
and take action to double the number of wild tigers in the next 12
years, focusing on 12 landscapes that some of the world’s top tiger experts
have identified as offering the best chances of increasing the world’s tiger
populations across the species’ range.
 Amur-Heilong – China and Russia
Kaziranga–Karbi Anglong – India
Satpuda-Maikal – India
Western Ghats-Nilgiris – India
Greater Manas – Bhutan and India
Sundarbans – Bangladesh and India
Terai Arc – India and Nepal
Forests of the Lower Mekong – Cambodia,
Laos and Vietnam
Dawna-Tennaserim – Myanmar and Thailand
Banjaran Titiwangsa – Malaysia
Central Sumatra – Indonesia
Southern Sumatra

 Tigers can breed quickly and successfully if we provide them with
protected habitat and ample prey.
Ramp up anti-poaching measures. Maintain and enforce laws
banning tiger products.
 Restrict and monitor tigers in captivity across the globe.
Protect existing parklands, establish new protected areas for tigers
and create corridors that connect parklands and allow tigers to roam
to find adequate prey and mates for breeding.
 Continue critical tiger wildlife research and monitoring techniques,
which help improve tiger conservation methods, reduce human-tiger
conflict, and keep track of which tiger populations need the most
help.
 END DEMAND FOR TIGER PARTS

Lastly I would again like to thank the management for giving me this
opportunity to present my views. I am thankful to the tech team for providing
technical support needed for this presentation.

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