Tiger · Asia largest cat whose subspecies map, 1973 Project Tiger and remaining 4,000-odd wild animals define a century of recovery arithmetic.
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Tisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0
The numerical centre of the living species.
Bengal tiger (P. t. tigris, India / Bangladesh) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Appaloosa · CC BY-SA 3.0
Snow-and-ungulate border programme.
Siberian / Amur tiger (Russian Far East, Russia / China) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
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Hunter-author; park namesake.
Jim Corbett (1875-1955, India / UK) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
NTCA-era reserve system.
Project Tiger (1973-, India) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
St Petersburg doubling politics.
Global Tiger Forum / Tx2 (2010-, International) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
THerrington · CC BY-SA 3.0
A named tigress economy.
Ranthambore / Machli (tourism tigress, India) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
J. Patrick Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Subspecies as a warning, not a rebound.
South China tiger (wild-extinct, China) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Shihabur Rahman · CC BY-SA 4.0
Swimming, cyclone, and conflict subtype.
Sundarbans tigers (mangrove, India / Bangladesh) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
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Project Tiger grew on inviolate cores. Relocation ethics and corridor science still split the file.
A national rise can hide Indochinese collapse. The Red List reads the map, not the press conference.
A social pantherine whose prides, Gir relic and 2015 Cecil killing still structure African conservation politics.
Overall 66 🐘The atlas type is the bush elephant -- an ecosystem engineer whose ivory ban (1989) and split from forest elephants still structure African conservation.
Overall 61 🐺A Holarctic pack hunter whose 1995 Yellowstone return and older Leopold ethics still structure predator politics.
Overall 78 🐼A bamboo specialist whose WWF logo, Wolong quake and 2016 IUCN downlist from EN to VU made a recovery into a brand.
Overall 41 🐻A marine bear whose seal-and-ice budget made Churchill, Knut and climate models into one public animal.
Overall 56 🦍The atlas type is the western gorilla -- a knuckle-walking ape whose Fossey-era mountain cousins and Koko lab fame split one public name.
Overall 45 🐋The largest animal whose 1966 IWC protection, 1982 moratorium and still-thin Antarctic recovery define a hunted giant.
Overall 65