Call for conservation steps to double number of tigers

Conservationists are calling for efforts to double numbers of tigers over the next 12 years, as they warned that without global action the endangered species could vanish forever.

WWF said there were as few as 3,200 tigers in the wild, the lowest number since records began, with the animal under threat from hunting and a loss of its habitat.

In the Chinese Year of the Tiger, WWF is calling on governments in countries where the big cats are found to fulfil their commitment to double tiger numbers by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger.

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The conservation charity has also launched a petition, which it wants people in the UK to sign, to show that the public does not want to live in a world without tigers.

WWF made the call ahead of a meeting of governments from 13 countries that are home to wild tigers – including China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Russia and Thailand – in Bali next week.