The Bengal Tiger

As technology grows, the human population increases, demands of products grow and human territory expands, the habitat world is diminishing.

The Bengal tiger are carnivorous animals. If the tiger is driven by hunger it will eat almost anything like fish, crocodiles, lizards, frogs, fowl, carrion, or even humans, on some circumstance. The first threat is the destruction of their habitat. The increasing of the human population, urbanization, and clear cutting of trees has damaged the development of the tiger’s habitat across India, which pollutes and destroys the land. Another program that is helping the Bengal population is the breeding of the tigers in zoos. One sign of the government is when poachers are detained for killing the tigers and then shortly after they are released and they return to the forest to re-offend. Also organizations such as WWF, ICUN & CITES are trying to protect the Tiger by raising awareness, providing sanctuaries and educating people who persecute it (Andrew’s homepage web site all about the Tigers…/Tigers Background). When the tiger locates prey, it begins a slow and silent approach, when drown near the prey, it charges for its kill. The tiger lives in the forest, swamp, or the grassland areas. Once the prey is killed, the tiger can drag the prey weighing several hundred pounds, as much as 1,500 feet to hide the animal (Asian Rainforest: Bengal Tiger). By destroying nature, endangered species like the Bengal tiger will soon only live and be seen in Zoo’s, hardly the place where such a wonderful creature should live, thus by raising awareness and educating people we can save animals like the Bengal tiger from extinction. A non-profit organization called, Project Tiger, is to help raise money, which will go to the protection of the tigers in the Melghat Tiger Preserve in India. The second threat to tigers is that there is illegal poaching of theirs bones, skins, teeth, and other parts. If the prey is half the weight of the tigers, the killing bite is delivered to the nape of the neck, and for larger prey, a throat bite is preferred.