In 2016 the world wildlife fund estimated that there were 3890 tigers surviving in the wild. This figure had seen a rise in the numbers from 3200 that were released in 2010, that had followed a century of declining tiger numbers. At the start of the 20th century there were an estimated 100,000 tigers that […]

Animals that are endangered species are those that are likely to become extinct. In 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimated that there were 3079 endangered animals. The IUCN has two lists it publishes, its red list and its critically endangered list. The IUCN was created in 1948 to encourage international governments to […]