Wild tigers face extinction pressure from habitat loss and poaching, with successful conservation requiring both reserve management and coexistence strategies.
Tigers outside protected areas face immediate persecution risks. Conflict-involved tigers are often killed retaliatorily or captured under stressful conditions. Snaring within reserves causes severe injury and death. Prey depletion forces nutritional stress. Conservation must address both direct killing and the underlying drivers of conflict through prey management and compensation programs that reduce communities' incentives to persecute tigers.