The Tiger

  I hope it helps a bit to understand the tiger. Please feel free to comment.

The infographic says it all. When I prepared this infographic, I was thinking of the challenges given to the men competing in the television competition The World's Strongest Man. A lot of their tests are about dragging and carrying huge weights for as far and as fast as they can. It is a good test of brute strength. None of the past champions would have been able to move a 1,697-pound gaur on rough ground an inch. A tiger did. He 'dragged away a gaur bull'. Or drag a cow two miles up a slope in a wood!! A tiger did. That is almost unbelievable. The source is impeccable and mentioned at the base of the infographic. Infographic on why the tiger is endangered

I hope that this infographic nicely summarises the reasons in 2022 for the continual decline in tiger populations and why this precious, iconic wild cat remains vulnerable. They say that the Bengal tiger population is roughly stable but overall, there is downward pressure on tiger numbers when taking together all the species of tiger.  The IUCN (the experts) say that the population is decreasing and in a demonstration of their inefficiencies they have a typo in the population section in saying that the tiger population is: 2,608-3905,3140. Go figure that 😉. The minimum is 2,608 I guess and the maximum - well you guess. Probably 3,905 or 3,140. I think the latter is more accurate, but humankind does not really know the number of tigers left on the planet because we don't care enough. I won't add many words at the moment as the infographic tells the story succinctly, I believe. It is quite a complicated problem, but the underlying reason is simple, starkly simple. Humans are kil...