Bengal tigers are very endangered species along with the other tiger subspecies and unacceptable that people do to them are the reason why. Over the last century hunting Bengal tigers and destroying forest, which are their habitats, have dramatically decreased the tiger's population. Today there are about 2,500 of them left wiht a decreasing trend, and most of them are in Zoos. These tigers along with the other tiger's subspecies are hunted by poachers. Poachers tend to hunt them for trophies and also for money. These people kill these tigers to sell some of their body parts such as eyes, furs, fangs, even whiskers, and a lot more. The tiger parts are sold and would be turn in to some traditional Chinese medicine, which is not scientifically proven that works.Therefore people might probably just be wasting their money for a placebo.
Since there are a very few of them left, they are being protected in many places. Two of these places are The Nagarahole National Park and The Ranthambhore National Par. They are able to protect them by having park guards/rangers that are highly trained to track poachers and arrest them. They are also important, because while they supervise the place, they disable the traps and take things out that might harm or kill the tigers. However, the cruel and selfish poachers do not stop.
This all started when the beginning of 19th century, when tigers were so numerous in India. There were so many of them that the people of India didn't want them there because they're taking too much land mass. Also because they were scared that they might start attacking the people. This resulted that killing Bengal tigers became an official policy and encourage other people to kill them as fast as possible.
Another cause is that people are building more farms, houses, and other man made features, which took a lot of tigers territories, and habitats. Having less territories for the tigers results in big problems like troubles for them to reproduce.
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