THE BEAUTIFUL , AWE-INSPIRING TIGER IS ONE OF OUR PLANET'S MOST ICONIC ANIMALS.

International Tiger Day is an annual ceremony conducted on July 29th to promote awareness for tiger conservation. It was founded in 2010 at the Tiger Summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The day's purpose is to promote a global system for safeguarding tigers' natural habitats, as well as to boost public awareness and support for tiger conservation.

Important facts about tigers and their conservation
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• Tigers are classified as ‘Endangered' all over the world. Subspecies of Malayan and Sumatran Tigers are critically endangered.

• They are only found in remote parts of Asia and East Russia.

• Tigers are devided into 9 subspecies
1.Siberian Tigers
2.Indian Tiger/Bengal Tiger
3.South China Tiger
4.Malayan Tiger
5.Indo-Chinese Tiger
6.Sumatran Tiger
7.Bali Tiger
8.Javan Tiger
9.Caspian Tiger

• According to WWF, there are approximately 3900 tigers. Since the turn of the century, the numbers have dropped by 95%.

• Ways to protect tigers

1.Conserve natural habitats

Reducing the amount of forest that is cut down for human reasons can help to save forests, and hence tigers' natural habitat.

2.Controlling climate change

Will aid in the conservation of the Sundarbans, the largest habitat for Royal Bengal Tigers. Let us make an attempt to do so, because it would be foolish to make things worse.

3.Prefer wildlife sanctuaries/reservoirs to zoos

wildlife sanctuaries are larger spaces, and tigers are far more at ease in the wild than in a zoo.

✍️ Article by : Dhanukshan TL
💻 Designed by : Lakshitha hettiarachchi

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