Recent research by international conversation organization shows that tigers still live in Viet Nam’s Truong Son mountains and Viet Nam – Laos border area, as well as 76 regions in 13 countries that could maintain the endangered species.
The world’s largest tiger populations exist in the Russian Far East and India. Southeast Asia also holds promise to sustain healthy tiger populations although many areas have lost most tigers over the last 10 years.
The study conducted by The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Smithsonian National Zoological Park and the Save the Tiger Fund has identified seventy-six “tiger conservation regions" as habitats that have the best chance of supporting viable tiger populations into the future.
The group also stands ready to support the 13 countries currently home to tiger populations in a regional effort to save the species. The report's authors suggest that the heads of state of those countries convene a “tiger summit meeting" to elevate tiger conservation on their countries' agendas.
