The Wildlife Protection Society of Indiastates that Tigers are ''not safe'' in India. They go on to say that Tigers have been poached more this year, than last year. They also state that Tigers have been poached this year than in the past 15 years.
So far this year, 25 Tigers have been killed. And we are only in May. Whereas in 2001, one of the worst years for Tiger poaching, in recent years, 30 Tigers were killed.
By the end of the year, we could see one of the worst Tiger poaching statistics in the past two decades. These are the statistics from the past 20 years:
''95 cases of tigers known to have been killed in 1994
121 tigers killed in 1995
52 tigers killed in 1996
88 tigers killed in 1997
39 tigers killed in 1998
81 tigers killed in 1999
52 tigers killed in 2000
72 tigers killed in 2001
46 tigers killed in 2002
38 tigers killed in 2003
38 tigers killed in 2004
46 tigers killed in 2005
37 tigers killed in 2006
27 tigers killed in 2007
29 tigers killed in 2008
32 tigers killed in 2009
30 tigers killed in 2010
13 tigers killed in 2011
32 tigers killed in 2012
42 tigers killed in 2013
23 tigers killed in 2014
25 tigers killed in 2015''
The figures show that if the same number of Tigers, or more, are killed by the time that 2016 is over, we would see one of the worst Tiger poaching years in living history.
This is bad news for the endangered Tiger, who are already in a precarious position. Poaching is one of the main threats to Tigers. As is habitat loss.
There are currently only 3,890 Tigers left in the wild. With 1,706 of those Tigers living in India. If poaching carries on the way it has, or, by the looks of 2016, gets worse, then we could be looking at Tigers becoming extinct in our lifetime.