Their Latin name is Panthera tigris . Three tiger subspecies, the Bali, Javan, and Caspian tigers have become extinct in the past 70 years. Poachers are continuing to exterminate the world's remaining Tigers. New demand across Southeast Asia for the skins, teeth and claws of tigers is endangering much of the great cats, particularly the Sumatran tiger. Currently, the demand for Tiger parts is centered in several parts of Asia where there is a strong market for traditional medicines made from items like tiger bone and body parts.
Volumes are sizeable and there has been little enforcement action against poachers and traders.
There were nearly 100,000 wild tigers at the beginning of the 20th century-Only 5,000 Tigers currently exist in the wild on the planet Earth. Leopards are suffering the same carnage as well. This information is from The Traffic Report of the World Wildlife Fund. The poachers have a huge demand for Tiger parts from major illegal supplying markets that still operate openly in Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam from Indonesia. Even though it is illegal to kill a tiger, wild tigers are still being poached today because their bones, whiskers and other body parts can be sold on the black market for a lot of money.