Tiger conservation depends on maintaining or restoring corridors between fragmented habitat patches, with welfare implications for individual tigers attempting corridor movement.
Tiger corridor welfare operates at both the individual level — dispersing tigers crossing agricultural and human-dominated landscapes face vehicle strikes, snares, and retaliatory killing — and the population level, where connectivity determines genetic diversity and long-term viability. Individual tigers navigating corridors are in a welfare-vulnerable state, outside protected areas and at risk from multiple human threats. Programs that reduce human-tiger conflict in corridor landscapes, compensate for livestock losses, and engage communities in corridor protection directly reduce the welfare risks of these critical movement events.