What is estimated number of Bengal tigers left in the world?
100
Poachers collecting skins, bones, and parts to sell in China and Nepal.
What is the biggest immediate threat to the Bengal Tiger population?
100
“Project Tiger”
What is conservation project that has set aside protected habitats in India for tigers and other species to live?
200
Hoofed mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
What does the Bengal tiger eat?
200
Two to six cubs.
What is the number of Bengal tiger cubs per litter?
200
The population dropped from 3,500 in the 1990s to 1,411 in 2007.
What are the effects of poaching?
200
53 totalling in 20,675 square miles of land
How many reservations has Project Tiger created in India?
300
18 months old.
What is the age Bengals tigers can hunt on their own?
300
250 individuals
What is the minimum viable population (MVP) number?
300
“Revenge Killings”
What is it called when a tiger is killed after it has hunted a human or consumed villager’s the livestock?
300
CITES
What is the name of the treaty that seeks to ensure that species are not harmed by their international trade?
400
8-10 years
What is the average lifespan of the Bengal tiger?
400
Approximately 100,000 individuals.
What was the population size of the Bengal tiger in 1900?
400
A “Chupa”.
What is the name of the traditional Tibetan dress garments that often have tiger skin on them?
400
WildTeam
Which organization focuses on human-tiger conflicts and provides emergency medical attention to villagers that have been attacked, and rescues tigers that have wandered into villages?
500
96-111 days, with as few as 20 months in between.
What is the Bengal tiger's gestation period?
500
The mangroves of the Sundarbans in India.
What are the only mangrove forests where tigers are found?
500
200 meters per year.
At what rate is the coast of The Sundarbans, one of the only remaining habitats large enough to sustain several hundred tigers, shrinking?