Tiger

The Bengal tiger is now more or less confined to reserves (but it is said that 60+% of Bengal tigers live outside reserves7 – is this true in 2009?) of which most are in India (1400 tigers). But reserves are not protecting the tiger from being poached. The map below shows where the Bengal tigers are in India by region. This tiger is also found in Bangladesh (200-400), Nepal (350) and Bhutan (70)1. Bengal tiger habitat.

The Siberian tiger is primarily confined to the far east of Russia and its habitat stradles Vladivostock, which divides its range together with a corridor of idustrialisation. It is also found in China (just – pop: 18-22 at 2009) & Korea (unsure). Please see this page: Siberian tiger habitat.

Indochinese tiger – Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Viet Nam and Cambodia1.

Sumatran, Java, Bali tigers. The last two are extinct as mentioned. Each lived or lives on its own island. The islands are marked on the map below. They form a chain. Please click the blue flags.

Caspian tiger – although extinct a map of its range has been attempted and it is as follows:

Malayan tiger – Malayan Peninsula.


7 thoughts on “Tiger”

  1. Is the Siberian population increasing? Please tell me more. I had thought it was stable at around 400 with an effective breeding population of about 14! This is due to inbreeding.

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