Tigers will be extinct within a decade if we don’t act now, claims charity

Tigers will be extinct within a decade if we don't act now: Environmental charity issues a stark warning after poaching and habitat destruction sees wild population fall to just 4,000 Charity Born Free says tiger numbers decreased by 96 per cent in a century  Only 4,000 tigers exist in the wild and half are thought to be in India The charity has today launched an international plea to save the iconic species

By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline

Published: 13:41 GMT, 16 January 2019 | Updated: 14:58 GMT, 16 January 2019

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Tigers may be wiped from existence and consigned to history within a decade, a charity claims. 

Born Free says the dramatic demise of tigers in the wild has seen 96 per cent of their population disappear in the last hundred years. 

As few as 4,000 are believed to exist in the wild today due to poaching and habitat destruction. 

The British charity has today launched an international plea to save this iconic species. 

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The dramatic demise of tigers in the wild has seen 96 per cent of their population disappear in the last hundred years. As few as 4,000 are believed to exist in the wild today

The dramatic demise of tigers in the wild has seen 96 per cent of their population disappear in the last hundred years. As few as 4,000 are believed to exist in the wild today

Born Free is working alongside seven Indian NGOs to increase efforts to to save the tigers. 

More than 500 of the estimated 2,000 tigers found in India are in the central region of Satpuda. 

They are hoping to tackle the poaching crisis, safeguard tiger habitats, and promote conservation interventions that will enable communities and wildlife to live harmoniously.  

'India is home to some of the greatest diversity of wildlife on Earth,' said Howard Jones, CEO of Born Free, based in Horsham, Sussex.

'Within this extraordinary ecosystem, tigers need our intervention more than ever due to countless threats including human-wildlife conflict.

'[That includes] poaching for their body parts for traditional 'medicine'; and habitat loss due to deforestation and chaotic or ill-considered rural development.

'It's unimaginable to think of a world without tigers but unless we act now, the consequences could be

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