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Wednesday Work-out session – (18/03/2015)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Indochinese Tiger at Berlin Zoo, Germany, South China Tiger

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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