Far from recovering, tigers may be in worst decline in a century

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Far from recovering, tigers may be in worst decline in a century

We all crave a good news conservation story, but claims of a global tiger recovery look wide of the mark, says Elizabeth Kemf

By Elizabeth Kemf

26 May 2016

A tiger wading up to its chest in a marshy pool — Tiger habitat is disappearing fast
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When two big conservation groups roared that ““, the feel-good news was enthusiastically .

But all is not settled, despite the pronouncement from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Global Tiger Forum that “around 3890 tigers exist in the wild, up from an estimated 3200 in 2012”, with a doubling to “6000+” hoped for by 2022, the next Chinese year of the tiger.

The reality is that tigers have never been more endangered and may…

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