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 * Group Members:** Ronnie Braithwaite and Caroline Herbert


 * How Will We Work Together:** Ronnie researches information and Caroline types it into the wiki. We switch positions each day until the research is completed.
 * Research:**


 * 1. Locate your animal’s habitat (Where** **does it live? Does it migrate?)**

The tigers'' habitat covers almost every corner of India. A tiger's habitat is dependent on two components. Firstly, it should provide good cover for stalking and secondly, it should have a good abundance of prey.The colder weather is the best climate for them. Tigers do not migrate, they have a territory and hunt there until the territory is no use to the tiger and he/she moves on.

-Siberian tiger -Bengal tiger -Indochinese tiger -Sumatran tiger -Malayan tiger -South China tiger -Bali tiger (extinct) -Caspian tiger (extinct) -Javan tiger (extinct) The Siberian tiger...........
 * Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal.**
 * Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal**.

1. is the largest of all tigers. 2. male weighs 450 to 600 pounds and is 9-11 feet tall. 3. female weighs 250 to 400 pounds and is 8-9 feet tall. 4. has long, thick fur and its color is yellow with black stripes running through. 5. has powerful limbs and a flexible backbone. 6. catches food at a sudden attack. 7. lives about 15 years in the wild and in zoos to about 16-18 years. 8. has long, sharp, dagger-like retractable claws. 9. can jump 10 meters in one leap. 10. have soft pads under paws so prey can’t hear them.


 * 2. Where and why is your animal endangered?**

Siberians tigers are in near extinction everywhere except Russia. Poaching, demand for tiger parts, habitat loss, and diseases are major problems to the the loss of tigers.
 * Locate where it is end****angered (might not be endangered in all its habitats)**


 * Identify the factors, environmental and/or a****nthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered.**

The demand for tiger parts to use in traditional Chinese medicine is a factor in the loss of tigers. Forest’s are under threat from logging conservation to agricultural urban expansion, road construction, mining, fire’s, and inadequate law enforcement. Human population is a cause of the habitat loss and decrease in population of tigers. Siberian tigers have been poisoned, trapped, snared, and shot.

The Bali, Caspian, and Javan tigers have already become extinct. The South China tiger is on its way to become extinct with a population of only 20-30 in the wild. The Bengal tiger is the most populous with a population of about 3000-4800 living in the wild. The oldest tiger on record was 26 years old. Tigers are killed because of their fur for coats, their tails to cure skin cancer, and bones for wines and to ward off evil spirits. There are more tigers held captive than in the wild.
 * Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment**


 * 3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved?**

WWF Tiger Conservation Plan, Big Cat Rescue Organization, The Atlanta Zoo are conservation centers that reserve areas for tigers and reduce the poaching of tigers.
 * Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held.**


 * 4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done?

Locate where research is done on your animal and where efforts are underway to conserve its population (Note: It may be that this is done at the same location(s) you identified in #3)** WCS Siberian tiger project, WWF tiger conservation plan, Big Cat Rescue Organization, and the Tiger Capacity Building Facility are facilities where efforts are underway to conserve the tiger's population.


 * Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation.**

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The Sanfrancisco Zoo and the other centers listed above all keep a habitats for tigers. The Save The Tiger Fund has a number of world famous tiger experts like John Seidensticker, the chairman of the Save The Tiger Fund. Big Cat Rescue is a non profit educational sanctuary that is devoted to rescuing and providing a permanent home for exotic cats who have been abused, abandoned, bred to be pets, retired from performing acts, or saved from being slaughtered for fur coats, and to educating the public about these animals and the issues facing them in captivity and in the wild.======
 * Outline any research and efforts to** **conserve the population**

WWF aims to establish and manage effective tiger conservation, eliminate the trade in tiger parts and products, create incentives that will encourage local communities and others to support tiger conservation, and build capacity for tiger conservation. In 2005, The Save The Tiger Fund launched Campaign Against Tiger Trafficking to create an ordered response to the organized transnational criminals that were murdering the world’s last tigers for profit. Strengthening landscape level conservation and stopping trade of tiger parts are two things that animal centers and funds try to do to reduce the killing of tigers. Since 1992, the goal of The Wildlife Conservation Society project has been to collect the best possible scientifically based information on tiger ecology and conservation for use in conservation plans. Research efforts like what WCS is doing can help conserve tiger population.

[|Siberian tiger cub] [|Siberian tiger] [|Indochinese tiger] [|Malayan tiger] [|Bengal tiger] [|Sumatran tiger] [|South China tiger]
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