While it is impractical and virtually impossible to determine with precision the number of remaining wild tigers, there is a consensus among the leading tiger authorities that there are between 5000 and 7000 left in the world. They range widely across much of Asia and live in small fragmented populations, mostly in protected forests, wildlife reserves and national parks. These are the last strongholds of the tiger amidst a vast and growing sea of humanity. In this page, we wish to introduce you individually to each and every country where wild tigers live. We will help you understand some of the key factors behind their critical endangerment and we will introduce you to organizations and agencies that work to protect them. Armed with this knowledge, we hope you will be inspired to act and do something to help protect our planet's remaining wild tigers. Click on the map or on a country name and we will take you to the last Tiger Countries.

The tiger once ranged widely across the vast forests of Asia and in their current form for hundreds of thousands of years. No one really knows how many of them there were, but it is clear that they were abundant and that they adapted well to a wide variety of habitats and climates. An oft-repeated estimate is that at the turn of the 19th Century, there were more than 100,000 wild tigers in Asia. For them there were no borders, other than those imposed by nature. With human population growth, and with geopolitical and habitat fragmentation, their population began to break-up into ever-smaller groups of tigers living under rapidly changing conditions. In some areas, they were ruthlessly hunted. In others, the forests where they lived were eradicated. With isolation and persistent degradation of their natural habitat, and with relentless poaching of their prey and the tigers themselves, these small tiger populations have been gradually eliminated, to the point that the tiger is now extinct in numerous countries. In this page you can learn about the countries where wild tigers have disappeared and about the causes of their extinction. Click on the map or on a country name and we will take you to the countries that have lost their tigers.