It is now 2010 and in Chinese years it’s the year of the Tiger and it seems that the tiger is going swimming. There are reports that one of the most largest tiger populations in the world could be extinct by the end of the century. The reason for this is that the sea levels have started to rise because of the climate change around the coast of Bangladesh in an area called Sundarbans. With only an estimated amount there are 3,200 remaining Tigers in the wild.
“If we don’t take steps to address the impacts of climate change on the Sundarbans, the only way its tigers will survive this century is with scuba gear,” said Colby Loucks, World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) deputy director of conversation science.
He also said that the tigers are highly adaptable creatures like other tigers in the snowy mountains of Russia to the tropics of the Indonesia. Although the sea level rise in Sundarbans will most likely outpace the tiger’s ability to adapt.
Do you think that the tiger will be extinct by the end of the century or will the tiger be more dangerous in the water?
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