Tigers Dwindling: Just Six Sub-species Remain
Six different sub-species of tigers exist today, scientists confirmed recently, amid hopes the findings will boost efforts to save the fewer than 4,000 free-range big cats that remain in the world, said the report in the journal Current Biology.
Highlights of the Report
- The six include the Bengal tiger, Amur tiger, South China tiger, Sumatran tiger, Indochinese tiger and Malayan tiger.
- Three other tiger subspecies have already gone extinct: the Caspian, Javan and Bali tigers.
- Researchers analysed the complete genomes of 32 tiger specimens in order to confirm they fall into six genetically distinct groups.
- Researchers found very little evidence of ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 Declaration on Reducing Methane from Organic Waste
- 2 UNEP Launches Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas
- 3 Climate Action Declaration for Tourism at COP29
- 4 India-ISA Agreement for Solar Projects in Indo-Pacific Countries
- 5 Disaster Mitigation & Capacity Building: Centre Approves Funds
- 6 New Fire-Resilient Plant Species Found in Western Ghats
- 7 Inquiry into Deaths of Elephants in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
- 8 World's Largest Coral Discovered near Solomon Islands
- 9 Coral Triangle's Biodiversity under Threat
- 10 Climate Change Performance Index 2025
- 1 Heatwave: Countdown 2018
- 2 Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion
- 3 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin
- 4 Drought in Maharashtra
- 5 Role of Water and Ecological Systems in Drought Resilience
- 6 Rare Sub-species of Hog Deer
- 7 Moths are Key to Pollination in Himalayan Ecosystem
- 8 Two New Gecko Species Discovered
- 9 Eight Captive-Reared Vultures to be Released with Tracking Devices
- 10 Status of World’s Wilderness
- 11 Clean Air is a Human Right: WHO
- 12 Greening with Pollution-gobbling Trees
