Wwf tiger program challenges

An adult tiger can measure nearly 3 meters from the nose to the tip of the tail, and can weigh more than kg. Adult tigers are mainly solitary preying mainly on deer and wild pig.

However, sometimes 2 tigers with neighbouring territories may have a friendly interaction with each other. Depending on prey abundance, their territories can range from 10—km2 females and 30—1,km2 males. Tiger cubs follow their mother until the age of two. Even though the willingness to catch a moving prey is instinctive in tigers, a long learning process is needed to acquire the skills necessary to catch a wary and fast prey animal.

Tigers are never replaced on their range until they die. Tiger populations are under threat from prey depletion, tiger poaching and habitat degradation and fragmentation.

These threats arise from a variety of factors linked to local rural uses from variety of factors linked to local rural uses as well as economic development projects. Essential challenge now lies in setting appropriate priorities in responding to these threats. In Nepal, fragmentation and loss of natural habitat and poaching are the major impediment to effective conservation. Tigers are facing a serious danger of becoming extinct in the wild. Out of the nine subspecies, the last three have already been extinct and the rest are endangered.

To more than double the tiger population to 6, individuals by the next Year of the Tiger in Since , tigers have lost 40 percent of their habitat. At present they occupy only about seven percent of their former range and are confined only in South and Southeast Asia, China and the Russian Far East. Tigers were once distributed throughout the lowland Terai and the adjoining foothills of the country. After the collapse of the Rana regime in s and the eradication of malaria during the mids, Chitwan opened to outsiders.

Thousands of people can down from the mid-hills and large swathes of wildlife habitat were cleared for human settlements, agriculture and other development activities. Experts from the Hunting Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Khabarovsky Province took part in the operation to sedate and relocate the tigers. One of the tigers, a three year old male, was given the name 'Stubborn' because of his refusal to enter the enclosure at the rehabilitation centre, preferring the confines of his transport cage.

According to tiger specialists, this young male is seriously exhausted and exhibiting a pale pelt — an indicator of poor health, however, he is eagerly accepting food, giving hope for a good recovery. The other tiger, another young male aged between 2 and 3 years of age, is said to be in much better condition, weighing around kg — a normal weight for a tiger of his age and size. It is too early to determine why the tigers have appeared so close to the town. A detailed medical examination of the tigers may provide further answers.

A meeting of veterinarians has already been scheduled in Khabarovsky Province to develop a treatment strategy. After that, the working group of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Khabarovsky Province, will make a decision about the future of the tigers. Human tiger conflict HTC occurs when a wild tiger interacts with humans, their animals or their livestock and this results in an injury or death to a human, livestock or tiger. The solution is to minimize contact between wild tigers and humans, however, as Asia develops competition for space and habitat increases.