Tigers are the largest living cat species on earth.
They mainly inhabit forests.
Since the early 20th century, tiger populations have lost at least 93% of their historic range and are locally extinct in West and Central Asia.
In large areas of China, and on the islands of Java and Bali. Today, the tiger’s range is severely fragmented. The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, as its range is thought to have declined by 53% to 68% since the late 1990s.
