ANSWER: 29th July
Explanation:
UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) celebrated International Tiger’s Day on 29th July 2016. - Of 100000 tigers roaming the nation a century ago only 3200 are left behind, according to a WWF 2014 report.
- Between 2000 and 2014, authorities across Asia seized parts of as many as 1590 tigers killed for traditional medicine, according to wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic.
- WWF has warned that poaching and habitat loss could bring extinction for the Asian big cats.
- India is home to 50 percent of the world’s tiger population with 1706 tigers.
- Of 9 species, 3 are extinct while 6 exist in the world today. The tigers that are not extinct include Siberian Tigers, Bengal tigers, Indochinese tigers, Malayan and Sumatran tigers and South China tigers.
- 3 extinct species are Bali, Caspian and Java tigers.
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