Local people hunt the same prey as tigers do, pressing tigers to resort to domestic animals and, on rarer occasions, even humans. CompetitionĪs tigers compete with humans and industry for land, they find less and less to eat. Over the past 40 years, China’s population, the largest in the world, has more than doubled and 99 per cent of China’s original forest habitat has been destroyed. In India, where about 60 per cent of the world’s wild tigers still roam, the human population has grown by 50 percent in the past 20 years. Almost all of Indonesia’s lowland forest has been cleared for rice cultivation. Indonesia, for example, has the same population as the United States, but only ten percent of the land area. PopulationĪsia’s explosive population growth demands that more and more land be converted to agriculture. Without wilderness, the wild tiger will not survive. These forest fragments are surrounded by rapidly growing and relatively poor human populations, including increasing numbers of illegal hunters. Agricultural expansion, timber cutting, new roads, human settlement, industrial expansion and hydroelectric dams push tigers into smaller and smaller areas of land. As the mountains, jungles, forests, and long grasses that have long been home to tigers disappear, so, too, do tigers. In order to live in the wild, tigers need water to drink, animals to hunt, and vegetation in which to hide.
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