🤯 Did You Know (click to read)
Three tiger subspecies have gone extinct in the last century.
Historically, tiger populations extended across vast regions of Asia, from eastern Turkey to the Indonesian archipelago. Today, multiple subspecies have vanished, and the Malayan tiger survives only in fragmented sections of Peninsular Malaysia. This contraction represents one of the most dramatic range reductions among large carnivores. Expanding agriculture, urbanization, and hunting steadily erased contiguous habitat. What was once a continental predator has become a localized relic. The Malayan tiger now occupies a fraction of historical tiger range. Geographic shrinkage mirrors population collapse.
💥 Impact (click to read)
Range reduction limits gene flow and increases vulnerability to localized disasters. Continental distribution once buffered against regional extinction events. Fragmented survival eliminates that safety net.
Protecting remaining tiger landscapes is therefore a global biodiversity priority. Each surviving subspecies carries unique evolutionary heritage. Losing the Malayan tiger would further compress a lineage already diminished across Asia.
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