The Bengal tiger population is in constant danger

BENGAL TIGER, THE GREATEST FELINE IN DANGER

Bengal tiger or Indian tiger is the second biggest specie of tiger in the world after the Siberian tiger and one of the most sacred animals of the East. In some cultures this animal is an icon of power and beauty. Bengal tiger is a great animal with a considerable size and can weight 220 kg. This specie of tiger is protected by governmental and international organizations for its significant decline in wealth. Besides Bengal tiger population will decrease considerably if the human progress does not realize of its destructive and invasive acts such as poaching, invasion of its habitat and the captivity of tiger’s food.

The current state of Bengal tiger is alarming because poachers are a constant threat to it. The most disturbing part of poaching is that the tiger’s skin is valuable and is then sold to the highest bidder. Also use its entire body to be dissected and exposed as prize. Trophies and awards are given to some people when someone makes a good hunt. That is why tigers are an endangered animal species. Unfortunately poaching as a sport is not limited to a culture or population. Another reason about why tiger is hunted is because of people consider it a threat. When tigers are starving and they have no meals they attack people or cattle. The native people of these places say it is the only defense against this threat.

At the present Bengal tigers’ territory is less and less because of the human progress. Tigers need places where they can eat, drink, mate and hide but currently their habitat is being threatened by logging companies that eliminate native forests where they live since hundreds of years ago and which are the places where they hide from potential menaces (other predators, actually the humans). Roads are built onto the tigers’ natural habitat which destroy the ecosystem leaving a noticeable lack of water and food increasing struggle between the same species to survive. Nevertheless the Indian government has taken steps to stop the indiscriminate advance of man creating 8 natural reserves to halt their apparent extinction. It is believed that on average there are only 1,500 tigers in wildness in the world concentrated in India and Nepal.

The captivity of tiger’s prey is growing and tigers have no meals because it is considered livestock. It usually hunts large prey such as antelopes, water buffaloes and even monkeys. In areas where tigers live the food is little and people raise deer, peacocks and wild hogs which are their natural prey because of the size and meat. Human intervention to capture species from their natural environment both to be taken to zoos or become cattle have led to a lack of food which are part of their natural diet and for this reason the tiger was forced to attack livestock farmers. However, this is only way to satisfy their need for food when they have not been able to find other prey

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