There were about 100.000 tigers at the early XXe century.
It remains about 3.500 today, and this nuber decrease each day, faster and faster (animated map):
Source : Tigers: Question of survival
Their situation is hopeless.
They are killed by man: Poarching, killing subsidies, and deforestation, the destruction of their habitat.
These attacks, far from decrease despite the international agreements of full protection and no-trade, are increasing faster and faster.
For all tigers, the time is now the one of an urgent question of survival.
Whales, bears, tigers: We track the progress of the Earth colonization by the human specie with the violent and full extinction of big animals in conquered areas.
The phenomenon is paleontologically known since about 100.000 years.
Education democratization, and the industrialization explosion didn't break it, quite the reverse: It increase in intensity and reach smaller species since at least the 1850 industrial revolution.
Tigres were big mammals, the adult weighting about 300 kg for a length of about 9 feet.
Numerous are those that this situation despair and revolt, up to the point to want to try to save tigers by themselves, grouping good-willings in local, national, internationnal organizations, associations and conservation structures.
One of these running actions trying to reach the impossible is to make breeds in captivity, hoping so to preserve for a time at least a part of their genome.
It is pathetic, but better than nothing.
The number, consistent, of attempts of this kind having lead to a fail is not recorded, however impossible struggles sometimes succeed: There are populations of species, sentenced to death by the 50's, which are near to recover their previous size. There are even cases, very rare, where conservation measures induced overpopulations, the most known example being the chamois in Alps.
So, why not?
Conservation attempt, in captivity and in the wild, goes through the Australian leisure parc named DreamWorld, a World of dream, built at the Brisbane South, on the Gold Coast, Coomera, ( 27o51'50"S et 153o19'00"E ), of which a part is devoted to tigers under the name of Tiger Island.
There, tigers are domesticated from birth, and will remain there all life long.
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This is possible mainly through gifts of people from the whole world.
A part of the granted money is redistributed to Conservation associations of the wild tiger, in its natural habitat, thus in other countries.
You can contribute to save a tiger, the tigers, along with other big species on the edge of extinction:
