Tigers - Extinct? Soon...

Generally my posts are about websites, larger environmental issues or living sustainably and environmentally consciously. This post is about a different sustainability issue - poaching endangered species, which often get to be endangered because their hunting is not done sustainably.

Here is an article about the poaching of tigers and their precipitous drop in populations and ranges over recent years. Last year5% of the wild tiger population was killed, meaning at that rate it would be less than 20 years for extinction of all tiger species.

I learned a lot from this article and I recommend that you read it but an example of something I didn't know was that tigers were once found in 25 countries and now only in 13 countries and that their populations have declined from an estimated 100,000 100 years ago to about 3200 in the wild today.