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Three tiger subspecies - the Bali, Javan, and Caspian - have become extinct in the past 70 years. The six remaining subspecies - Amur, Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan, South China, and Sumatran - live only in Asia, and all are threatened by poaching and habitat loss.
© WWF-Canon / Vladimir FILONOV
Amur or Siberian Tiger
Panthera tigris altaica
- The Amur or Siberian tiger lives primarily in the coniferous, scrub oak, and birch woodlands of eastern Russia, with a few tigers found in northeastern China and northern North Korea.
© WWF-Canon / Vladimir FILONOV
Bengal Tiger
Panthera tigris tigris
- Most Bengal tigers live in India, although some range through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Myanmar.
- White tigers are simply a color variant of Bengal tigers and are rarely found in the wild.
© WWF-Canon / Elizabeth KEMF
Indochinese Tiger
Panthera tigris corbetti
- The distribution of the Indochinese tiger is centered in Thailand. Indochinese tigers are also found in Myanmar, southern China, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and peninsular Malaysia. Within this range, tigers live in remote forests in hilly to mountainous terrain, much of which lies along the borders between countries. Access to these areas is often restricted, and biologists have only recently been granted limited permits for field surveys. As a result, relatively little is know about the status of these tigers in the wild.
© Martin HARVEY / WWF-Canon
Malayan Tiger
Panthera tigris jacksoni
The Malayan tiger was only identified as being a separate subspecies from the Indochinese tiger in 2004. It is found only in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, that is, in the southern tip of Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia. Its status has not yet been determined.
- While morphologically similar to the Indochinese tiger, the Malayan tiger is smaller, being more close in size to the Sumatran tiger. The average weight for adult males is 120kg and for females is 100kg.
Sumatran Tiger
Panthera tigris sumatrae
© WWF-Canon / Alain COMPOST
- The Sumatran tiger is found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in habitat that ranges from lowland forest to submontane and montane forest with some peat-moss forest.
© WWF-Canon / John MacKINNON
South China Tiger
Panthera tigris amoyensis
- It is estimated that the South China tigers is functionally extinct. Currently 47 South China tigers live in 18 zoos, all in China. The South China tiger is the most critically endangered of all tiger subspecies.
- The South China tiger is found in central and eastern China.








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