There are also occasional accounts of tigers attacking humans. Although tigers preying upon livestock were killed in the past, this is now illegal. The conflict, nevertheless, remains and retaliation by affected parties is conceivable. Tigers need large areas of forests to survive - a tiger can cover up to 15 km or more in one night just stalking its prey. Worldwide, tigers have probably lost about one third of their habitats since the 1950s.
Tigers instinctively avoid humans.
Of the eight known sub-species of tigers, three have become extinct in this century alone. There are today probably only 5,000 to 7,500 tigers left on the planet.