Born Free Foundation - Keep Wildlife in the Wild

Born Free takes action in India to protect tigers.  The IUCN¹ Red List, which lists all rare species of animals, classes the five remaining subspecies of tiger as ‘endangered’ (three sub-species have already gone extinct).  This means the remaining subspecies ‘face a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future’.

¹International Union for Conservation of Nature

Population decline

1900 – 100,000 exist

1950 – 40,000

2007 – less than 5,000 survive; 2,500 in India, IUCN status  ‘Endangered’

CITES STATUS:

Appendix I