Amur Tigers’ Effective Population Cut By More Than Half in Past Two Years, Drops to 14

photo: Neil McIntosh / Creative Commons An update on the precarious state of Amur tigers : New figures have been released on the effective breeding population of Amur tigers (also known as Siberian tigers) which show that the genetic diversity of the wild population is so low that there are effectively less than 14 of them le… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Amur Tigers’ Effective Population Cut By More Than Half in Past Two Years, Drops to 14

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