There was a massive spike in tiger poaching.” By the mid-1990s, it seemed possible that the Amur tiger would soon be extinct. Back then, Miquelle worked for the Hornocker Wildlife Institute ...

Amur tigers, formerly known as Siberian tigers, are under threat because of poaching, declining prey populations and deforestation in their natural habitats. According to the Wildcats Conservation ...

Tigers populations have faced decades of habitat destruction, poaching, and human-wildlife conflict, leading to a dramatic ...

But he knew that the chances of seeing a tiger in daylight were slim. Of the 300 or so Amur tigers left in the wild - under constant pressure from poaching and forest destruction - no more than 12 ...

The 300-pound feline once roamed much of Central Asia, but poaching and habitat destruction ... While the Caspian tiger is gone, scientists hope to introduce a close relative, the Amur tiger, to take ...

Now around 400 Amur tigers roam the wild. In the 1970s, we helped reverse a steep decline in the population of India’s tigers. And in the areas where we run projects – including support for ...

In the far east of Russia, a population of around 500 Amur tigers persists, occupying a fragment of its former land. Under threat from habitat loss and poaching, these tigers are close to extinction.

Due to war, poaching, habitat loss, and overall instability, their population has been decimated. It's estimated that there are fewer than 600 Siberian tigers left in the wild.