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Locking Eyes with a Royal Bengal Tiger in the Tadoba Tiger Reserve, India

Photo by Sangeeta Dhanuka (Mumbai, India); Photographed April 2010

Expanding human populations on the Indian subcontinent have pushed tigers into small, isolated habitats and decreased the populations of natural prey, such as deer and antelopes. Despite the international ban on the tiger trade, put in place in 1993, tiger populations are also being decimated by poaching. The past few decades have seen a dramatic increase in the demand for tigers, which are sold and used as status symbols, decorative items, and folk cures, according to the WWF.

Status: Endangered


 

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