Habitat loss due to deforestation, logging, agriculture, and firewood collection has threatened the Siberian tiger population. Additional threats include loss of prey to hunters, poaching for traditional Chinese medicine, and human-tiger conflict. Conservation efforts include replanting forests, anti-poaching patrols, and a captive breeding program in China, but inbreeding is a problem in some facilities. Experts warn that without effective conservation actions, Siberian tigers could be extinct in the wild by 2022.

1. Habitat Lose for the Siberian Tiger
By: Jennie Clark
Bio 101
Prof. Swatski

2. Factors for Habitat Loss
• Forestation
• Logging
• Agriculture
• Fire
• Firewood

3. Other Factors for Population Decline
• Loss of prey to hunters due to poor economic
conditions
• Poaching for Chinese Medicine
• War
• Mining
• Construction

4. Chinese Medicine
• Tiger bones are very valuable for Chinese
medicine. These are not the only use for body
parts from the tigers.
• Other uses include:
– tiger wine, made from corpse-soaked liquor
– tiger penis soup
– pelts are believed to give you strength and power.

5. Saving Efforts
• International software program called
SPARKS, which is a stud book. This stud book
calculates the degree of inbreeding for each
tiger.
• Replanting of the forests where the tigers
naturally roam.
• Vamp up the number of individuals on anti-
poaching patrol.

6. Other Efforts
• There are a couple of tiger-breeding facilities
in China to help bring the population back up.
– The down side to these facilities is that some of
the facilities supervisors do not watch which tiger
is breeding with another, which leads to major
inbreeding and major biological issues.
– Also, these facilities are more tourist traps and
tiger farming than true research centers.

7. If Efforts Fail…
• If scientists cannot find a way to save the
Siberian Tiger, experts say there will be no
more wild Tigers come 2022.
• There is a 12 year plan in place. However,
there is a hefty cost associated with saving the
wild tigers, $350 million for just the first five
years of the 12 year plan.

8. Big Kitty
• In the US, there are 7,000-15,000 tigers living
in zoos, circuses, farms and backyards. Some
states have banned private ownership of such
large, wild cats, while other states do not.
• People think that they can train these large
cats, but they forget that they are wild.
• There are over 100 people hurt or killed each
year from interacting with wild cats.

9. Work Cited
• “A Question of Breeding.” Nature 449.7158(2007):
2-2. Research Library Core, ProQuest. Web. 11 Oct.
2010.
• admin. “Plant a Tree.” Photograph. Gala Gardens.
Gala Gardens, 24 Apr. 2010. Web. 26 Nov. 2010.
• Gangloff, Deborah. “On the Last of 9 Live.” American
Forests 1 Oct. 2000: Sciences Module, ProQuest.
Web. 11 Oct. 2010.
• Glausiusz, Josie. “Far from the Forests of the Night.”
Natural History 117.1 (2008): 40. MasterFILE
Premier. EBSCO. Web. 11 Oct. 2010.

10. Work Cited Cont.
• Guo, Jerry. “Tigers in Trouble: Year of the Tiger.”
Nature 449.7158 (2007): 16-18. Research Library
Core, ProQuest. Web. 11 Oct. 2010.
• “In the Shadow of the Siberian Tiger.” 9 Mar. 2009.
YouTube. Web. 5 Nov. 2010.
• nerudagirl. “Siberian Tiger – Detail.” Photograph.
Flickr. Yahoo, n. d. Web. 26 Nov. 2010.
• Nichols, Michael. “NGS Stock Photo.” Photograph.
NatGeo News Watch. National Geographic, 17 Nov.
2010. Web. 26 Nov. 2010.

11. Work Cited Cont.
• “Releasing Siberian Tiger in China.” 16 Oct.
2007. YouTube. Web. 5 Nov. 2010.
• Smith, Zane. “Tales from the Tiger Front.”
American Forests 1 Oct. 2001: Sciences
Module, ProQuest. Web. 11 Oct. 2010.
• “Tiger Bone Wine Sales Explode in China.” 12
Jun. 2008. YouTube. Web. 5 Nov. 2010.

12. Work Cited Cont.
• “Tiger Crisis – Russia.” 1 Nov. 2007. YouTube.
Web. 5 Nov. 2010.
• Titova, Irina. “Tigers Could be Extinct in 12
Years if Unprotected.” YahooNews. Yahoo, 21
Nov. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• WWF. “Amur Tiger.” Photograph. Amur
(Siberian) Tiger. WWF, n. d. Web. 26 Nov.
2010.