Tigers face continued poaching for their body parts used in traditional medicine and luxury goods, with individual tigers experiencing terrible suffering during capture and killing.
Tigers killed by poachers using snares or poison experience prolonged suffering before death — leg-hold snares can trap animals for days before poachers return. Tigers killed by poison die slowly from toxicological effects. The individual welfare harm is immense and occurs across the already tiny remaining population. Supporting anti-poaching rangers, community engagement programs, and demand reduction campaigns in tiger product consumer markets directly reduces individual tiger suffering and population decline simultaneously.