Tigers are considered to one of the most exotic and beautiful creatures that lurk our planet, however little do people know of this drastic decrease in population. Tigers face many endangering factors such as larger species of animals, natural disasters, diseases but most importantly humans. Humans are thought of to be the tiger’s biggest treat due to numerous reasons. Some include: traps, poisoning (pollution wise), hunting, skinning, and sources of medical products. These are just a hand full of the harmful effects of humans towards tigers. Today, only about 4,870 to 7,300 tigers are left in the wild. Three tiger subspecies, which are now extinct are: the Bali, Javan, and Caspian tigers.

Humans have also altered the natural habitats of tigers by their destruction and violation on the tigers' feeding range. The size of a tiger's territory depends on the amount of food available, and usually ranges from about 10 to 30 square miles (26-78 sq. km). Siberian tigers sometimes have really big territories (as large as 120 square miles).The ranges of the remaining five subspecies are as followed: The northernmost living tiger, and the Amur or Siberian tiger, live primarily in southeastern Russia. The South China tiger reside only in southern China. The range of the Indochinese tiger stretches across most of Southeast Asia. The Bengal tiger is found mainly in India, whereas the Sumatran tiger is restricted to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Humans are destroying their habitats by deforestation, moving into their preferred locations, polluting the water and air, and hunting them as well as their prey. Habitat loss is one of the most significant and devastating threats to the endangered tiger's survival. As long as the demand of tiger parts, for medicine, deforestation, hunting, pollution remain as it is, the tiger’s survival is in a critical condition.

WWF, on October 26, 2010, announced that one of the world’s most iconic species, the tiger, should be the first stage of many government’s efforts to conserve nature.  Many of the governments that gathered at Japan in the Convention on Biological Diversity (October 26, 2010) will meet again next month at the Tiger Summit, which is being held from 21-24 November in St. Petersburg, Russia. The purpose of this Tiger Summit is to preserve the number of tigers that exist now and to double its amount by the next year of the Tiger, which is on the year 2022. Also, the plan focuses on protecting the last existing tigers and maintaining the larger remaining habitats throughout the world. It aims to tackle the many ways of the tiger population loss, which includes the following:  poaching and the lucrative illegal trade in skins and body parts, habitat loss, conflict with humans, and prey loss. Head of WWF Tigers Alive, Mike Baltzer, quoted “As an indicator species for forests rich in biodiversity throughout Asia and the Russian Far East, tigers are on the front line of the impact of biodiversity loss, the Tiger Summit will be the first test for leaders to take action and make good on their pledges to arrest the decline in biodiversity.”  He also said, “If we save this beautiful and powerful icon of the forest, we can save a lot of important biodiversity. Strong action taken here in Nagoya will give us the momentum to stand strong for tigers at next month’s meeting and beyond.” Not very long ago, there were 100,000 tigers in the wild, with its nine subspecies roaming as far west as the Caspian Sea and as far east as the island of Bali in Indonesia. However due to the numerous complications the tigers had to deal with, 93 percent of its former habitat is lost. The tiger numbers as few as 3,200, with three subspecies already extinct and the remaining six hanging on in increasingly small pockets of habitat in 13 countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam. “Protecting the forest areas in the 13 countries where tigers are still found will also be a test in itself,” confirmed Baltzer.