A comprehensive scientific study of tiger habitats finds that the big
cats reside in 40 percent less habitat than they were thought to a
decade ago. Tigers now occupy only 7 percent of their historic range.
This landmark study, Setting Priorities for Conservation and Recovery of
Wild Tigers: 2005-2015, commissioned by the Save The Tiger Fund and
produced by some of the world's leading tiger scientists at World
Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, the Smithsonian's National
Zoological Park and Save The Tiger Fund, calls for specific
international actions to safeguard remaining populations. This dataset
shows large areas of habitat in the extirpated portion of the tiger's
range, including China, Central Asia, and the Indonesian islands of Java
and Bali. Landscapes are identified where extirpation is known to have
occurred within the last 20 years.