Summary: Due to deforestation and the loss of tick groundcover, the Sumatran tiger, native to Indonesia, could disappear from the wild. Thick ground-level vegetation is an environmental necessity for tiger habitat, and much of it has been disappearing recently. Today the tigers occupy only about 7 percent of their historic range. The current wild tiger populations have been estimated to be about 3,200 tigers, and only 400 of those being Sumatran tigers.
Critique: I think that tigers are awesome and I don't want them to go anywhere! I really hope that their natural habitats can be restored (if not fully at least somewhat) and that all the deforestation stops.
Impact: If something isn't done the Sumatran tiger could be the fourth kind of tiger to disappear from the wild. I think that's pretty major.
Thats so cruel! I hate it that we take away animal's houses! Tigers are so cool! Maybe a tiger army will come together and maul the mean people who take away their homes haha!
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