Nevertheless a great deal of information on the future of the tiger can be learned from a study of subspecies. It is amazing to me that people want numbers of tigers.
Process is the important aspect.
If I say that the number of Sumatran tigers today is between 300 and 400, it doesn't tell one that the 1975 census was 1500. Therefore saying that the Bali tiger, the Caspian tiger, the Javan tiger, the Manchurian tiger, and the Southwest Chinese tiger are now extinct doesn't give you a portrait of the process of extinction. The Javan tiger became extinct in the 1970's in a set aside special national park under full protection. Bureaucrats seem to be obsessed with numbers and not trends. Let us illustrate this with Tigers.