Panthera tigris

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Extict as P. t. balica, P. t. sondaica, and P. t. virgata, Critically Endangered as P. t. altaica, P. t. amoyensis, and P. t. sumatrae, otherwise Endangered.

Sumber: Order Carnivora

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra only), Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Russia, Vietnam. Recently extinct in: Afghanistan, Georgia, Bali, Java, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Singapore, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Sumber: Order Carnivora

Range: The original distribution of the tiger ranged over all the Korean Peninsula. The population declined significantly during the Japanese incursion (1910 – 1945). Whether tigers remain in South Korea has been the subject of much discussion. Although some mammalogists believe that a few individuals might remain around Mt. Baekdu, no hard evidence has confirmed their presence (Fig. 52). American soldiers reported tigers in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), even white tigers, but these purported sightings lack supporting evidence (Brady 2008). Although Kim et al. (2015) reported tigers in Mt. Baekdu, the supporting evidence for tigers in North Korea is currently lacking.

Sumber: Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I (except P. t. altaica) and U. S. ESA - Endangered as P. tigris. CITES - Appendix II as P. t. altaica subspecies only.

Sumber: Order Carnivora

DISTRIBUTION: Oriental region (except Borneo. and Philippines); north to extreme S. E. Siberia (U. S. S. R.); formerly in S. Caucasus, Asia Minor, N. Iran, Afghanistan, Bali, and Java.

Sumber: Order Carnivora

Habitat. Tigers are found in a great variety of habitat types. In Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan the Tiger was found in the drainage basins ofrivers and lakes, where they hunted in the “ tugai, ” which consists of thickets of low-stature trees (turanga, tamarisk), shrubs, and dense reed beds. In Kazakhstan Tigers sometimes ascended into montane forests in the summer in pursuit of Wild Boar, attaining heights of 2500 m. There are also records of Tigers in the Himalayas at altitudes of almost 4000 m, although in most areas the cats remain well below 2000 m. In China they occupied grass thickets, montane sub-tropical evergreen forests, and mixed forests dominated by oak and poplars. Tigers in the Russian Far East live in low mountainous terrain dominated by nut pine, birch, oaks, fir, and spruce. Winterin this region is harsh, with deep snow and temperatures dropping to — 34 ° C. In Sumatra and Malaysia Tigers are found in lowland humid tropical rainforest, where precipitation exceeds 2000 mm annually. In the outwash areas south of the Himalayas Tigers inhabit the “ terai ”, a belt of floodplain habitat dominated by marshes, swamps, oxbow lakes, and tall, dense grasslands intermixed with riverine forest. Sal forest, a climax form of moist deciduous forest, occurs on the slopes of the adjacenthills. In India Tigers inhabit the tropical, wet evergreen, and semi-evergreen forests of Assam, the mangrove swamps of West Bengal and neighboring Bangladesh, the vast expanses of dry deciduous forest in the central plateau, the tropical moist and dry deciduous forests of the Western Ghats, and the thorn forests of Rajasthan and Gujarat. In Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, Tigers also use the ancient temples and fortresses as places to lie up during the day.

Sumber: Felidae