Tigers

Tigers on the Brink: Facing up to the Challenge in the Greater Mekong
Spanning five of the world’s 13 tiger range states, the Greater Mekong region possesses the largest combined area of tiger habitat in the world today. Estimates vary significantly but it is thought there could be as few as 350 Indochinese tigers remaining in this region.

Reports

A Landscape-Based Conservation Strategy to Double the Wild Tiger Population (2011)
The tiger reserves of Asia could support more than 10,000 wild tigers – three times the current number – if they are managed as large-scale landscapes that allow for connectivity between core breeding sites.

Tigers Among US: The Impact of Poorly Regulated Captive Tigers in the United States on Tigers in the Wild  (2010)
With more tigers in captivity in the U.S. than survive in the wild, the United States needs a centralized federal database to monitor the big cats.  Weak U.S. regulations could be helping to fuel the multimillion dollar international black market for tiger parts, according to a review by WWF and TRAFFIC based on 2008 TRAFFIC report,  Paper Tigers?: The Role of the U.S. Captive Tiger Population in the Trade in Tiger Parts.

Reduced to Skin and Bones. An Analysis of Tiger Seizures from 11 Tiger Range Countries (2000–2010) (2010)
Parts of at least 1,069 tigers have been seized in tiger range countries over the past decade, according to an analysis of tiger seizures carried out by TRAFFIC. This report shows that from January 2000 to April 2010, parts of between 1,069 and 1,220 tigers were seized in 11 of the 13 tiger range countries—or an average of 104 to 119 animals per year.

The Big Cat Trade in Myanmar and Thailand (2010)
Black markets along Myanmar, Thailand and China’s shared borders play a crucial role in facilitating the deadly illicit trade in tigers and other endangered species, according to this WWF and TRAFFIC report.

Tiger Trade Revisited in Sumatra, Indonesia  (2007)
The Sumatran Tiger is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN 2006 Red List of Threatened Animals, as Appendix I under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and as a Protected species under the Act of the Republic of Indonesia No.5 of 1990 Concerning Conservation of Living Resources and their Ecosystems. However, despite being given full protection in Indonesia and internationally, tiger parts are still found openly in trade in Sumatra.

Setting Priorities for the Conservation and Recovery of the World's Tigers: 2005-2015 (2006)
WWF, Save the Tiger Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society and the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park collaborated on the most comprehensive scientific study of tiger habitats.

Designing a Conservation Landscape for Tigers in Human-Dominated Environments (2004)
Wildlife populations in small, isolated reserves face genetic and demographic threats to their survival. To increase the probability of long-term persistence, biologists promote metapopulation management, in which breeding subpopulations are protected as source pools.  

Nowhere to Hide: The Trade in Sumatran Tiger (2004)
TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring arm of WWF and IUCN, organized this comprehensive survey of tiger poaching and trade in Sumatra to document the current extent of the problem and provide the necessary information to management and enforcement authorities to act upon.