Poaching and small population size are main threats. Wildlife Protection Regulation, 1931. India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, NW Myanmar Estimated to be about 3,0600-4,700 living in over 100 protected areas, but skeptics say that this number is too high. Habitat shrinkage, fragmentation and the current resurgence in poaching are main threats. The last wild individual tiger was killed at Sumbar Kima, West Bali on 27 September 1937.
Rumors persist that tigers roam mountainous areas in West Java.
A 1993 remote-census photo survey in Meru Betiri NP found no evidence of tigers. It was probably lost many years before this.