Tigers News

If history teaches us anything, it’s that nothing stays the same. A century ago, a Russian military surveyor, Vladimir Arsenyev, wrote about his treks through the wilds of Primorye. This…

Tiger poaching is showing no sign of slowing down, according to a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 801 tiger…

Commercial tiger farms, that keep and breed tigers to meet the demand of tiger parts like skins, bones, teeth, and claws, are believed to fuel tiger trafficking. According to conservationists,…

t is rare to spot an Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) in the wild, according to Yang Jun, director of the Hunchun Forestry Bureau’s wildlife protection department. However, on July…

Getting close up and personal with a tiger can be exciting. But the reality behind tiger tourism is often grim, a new investigation has revealed. The tiger entertainment industry in…

Today is dedicated to the largest of the big cats -- the tiger (Panthera tigris). This awe-inspiring animal once ranged widely across Asia. But now, the animal has vanished from more…

A wildlife reserve and surrounding areas on Indonesia’s main western island of Sumatra were declared the country’s newest national park on Friday, part of the festivities for World Environment Day.…

On Monday, India’s environment minister Anil Madhav Dave accused 106 e-commerce sites of selling rare animals and wildlife products online. The list, collated by India’s Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), includes…

Judges in Indonesia’s Bengkulu this week handed down the harshest sentence ever for tiger trafficking in the country, imprisoning a man for four years and fining him 60 million rupiah…

Wildlife trafficking is a global problem, revealed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in their first-ever World Wildlife Crime Report. Released late last month, the report finds,…

A new set of eyes is keeping watch over tiger reserves across India. They're electronic, but they seem to have hawk-like observational faculties. And they may be related to how…

Update: 22 people have been charged with wildlife trafficking as of June 3. More dead animals, including a bear and a leopard, have been discovered and removed from the temple.…

Over the past 15 years, Cambodia has lost enough tree cover to fill the U.S. state of Connecticut as forests are logged and agroindustries clear land for rubber and other…

Thailand’s Tiger Temple has been mired in controversy. Earlier this year, a National Geographic investigation and a report released by Cee4life (Conservation and Environmental Education for Life) accused the tiger temple…

On 10 April 2016, WWF and the Global Tiger Forum announced that the world’s tiger population had finally increased “after several decades of constant decline”. From “as few as 3,200”…

The Field Museum in Chicago has awarded the 2016 Parker/Gentry award to Uma Ramakrishnan, an Indian conservation geneticist who has worked extensively on population genetics, evolutionary history and conservation of…

Another tiger has died at Indonesia's infamous Surabaya Zoo, once again bringing attention to the negligence, mismanagement and corruption that has plagued the institution. Zoo veterinarian Irmanu Ommy said the…

According to a new study published recently in the journal Science Advances, the latest technology in satellite imagery shows that there is still enough habitat in the wild for tiger…

Satellite analysis reveals tiger habitats are more intact than expected; an area large enough to double the wild tiger population remains

Authorities in Aceh arrested two more tiger poachers last week, with investigators posing as buyers to catch the men in the act of making the illegal sale. Police recovered two skins…

Yet another coal-laden ship has capsized in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. On Saturday, “MV Sea Horse-1”, a cargo vessel carrying 1,235 metric tons of coal, sank in the…

From Laos to Belize, forest personnel use the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) to more efficiently anticipate and combat wildlife crime.

In 2005, the government of Thailand stepped up patrolling and law enforcement efforts to protect the country’s largest source population of wild tigers, in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, which…

Nothing about the 292,000 hectares of acacia plantations established on the Kampar Peninsula – one of Southeast Asia's largest peat domes – can be considered sustainable, says a recent report commissioned…

Bangladesh, regarded by many as the nation most vulnerable to the impacts of global climate change, is on track to construct two coal-fired power plants that critics say are dangerously…

A sting operation brought down a pair of prominent wildlife criminals in southwestern Sumatra last week. Posing as buyers, authorities caught the men trying to sell tiger skins, bones and teeth.…

In a rare moment, a camera trap videoed a rare Amur tigress, trailed by her three cubs. The camera belongs to a network of camera traps set up by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)…

Photos captured by camera traps could seal the fate of an alleged tiger poacher in Thailand, WCS announced last Wednesday. Thailand police have confiscated tiger skin and body parts at…

A group of scientists from the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) and World Animal Protection is on the prowl for new tools to help protect wild tigers.…

Raising awareness among college students about tiger conservation issues can help influence conservation policies.