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Once widespread across Southeast Asia, tigers became extinct in Singapore, Java and Bali in the 20th century, and in recent years have also disappeared from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the wild.
The Bali tiger was a Panthera tigris sondaica population on the Indonesian island of Bali [2] which has been extinct since the 1950s. [1] It was formerly regarded as a distinct tiger subspecies with the scientific name Panthera tigris balica, which had been assessed as extinct on the IUCN Red List in 2008. [1]
In the 2021 film, Extinct, a thylacine named Burnie, along with a group of other extinct animals, help the movie's main characters travel through time to rescue their species from extinction. [169] In the 2022 science-fiction show The Peripheral the Tasmanian tiger is brought back into existence from DNA extracts. [170]
Tigers were still present in northern Vietnam bordering China in the 1990s. [36] As of 2015, this population is considered possibly extinct. [37] In Laos, 14 tigers were documented in semi-evergreen and evergreen forest interspersed with grassland in Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area during surveys from 2013 to 2017. [38]
Three species have gone extinct in the last 100 years: the Javan tiger (1970s), Bali tiger (1930’s), and Caspian tiger (2003). Tigers have faced the largest threat due to habitat loss and ...
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The Javan tiger was a Panthera tigris sondaica population native to the Indonesian island of Java.It was one of the three tiger populations that colonized the Sunda Islands during the last glacial period 110,000–12,000 years ago.
The Caspian and Siberian tigers were likely a single contiguous population until the early 19th century, but became isolated from another due to fragmentation and loss of habitat during the Industrial Revolution. [5] In 2015, morphological, ecological and molecular traits of all putative tiger subspecies were analysed in a combined approach.