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Estimated tiger populations (1997 when there were thought to be 5,000 to 7,000 tigers): 1) India, 2,500-3,750; 2) Myanmar (no estimate available); 3) Malaysia, 600-650; 4) Russia, 430 to 470; 5) Indonesia, 400 to 500; 6) Bangladesh, 300 to 460; 7) Thailand, 250 to 600; 8) Laos (no estimate available; 9) Vietnam, 200 to 300; 10) Nepal, 180 to 250; 11) Cambodia, 100 to 200; 12) Bhutan, 50 to 240; 13) China, 20 to 30 South China tigers; 14) North Korea, fewer than 10. Counting tigers is tricky and unreliable (See Endangered Tigers).There are an estimated 3,200 tigers living worldwide in the wild today. Wild tigers are still found in 14 Asian countries, including China and Russia. India is home two-thirds of world's tigers. There were around 100,000 tigers worldwide at the turn of the 20th century. There were around 11,000 in the mid-1960s and 5,500 to 7,500 in the early 1980s.

Tigers are found in several habitats but they prefers dense forest underbrush, and tall grasses which allows them to sneak up on their prey. They are very elusive and are rarely seen by humans. Even some scientists who study them have never seen them in the wild.

Counting tigers is no easy task. Because tigers are so difficult to find in the wild, censuses are conducted by counting tiger paw prints and studying prey and feces samples in a given area; using sampling techniques to calculate in tigers they may have missed; and extrapolating that number over an area where tigers are thought to live. By making plaster casts of tiger prints researchers are able to tell one animal from another.

Governments and park officials sometimes inflate numbers for P.R. reasons and underestimate numbers to receive funding from organizations to help endangered tigers. According to report on India, "State administrators appear to deliberately conceal the loss of tigers to poachers.

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How do penguins care for their young?

Penguins raise their chicks with dedication from egg to adolescence, when they are old enough to enter the water. According to Sea World, scientists believe the different coloration of penguin chicks encourages parenting behavior in adults. Both parents feed their chick, which they recognize by its call, by regurgitating food into its mouth.

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How long do Emperor Penguins care for their young?

Emperor penguins are doting parents from the moment their egg is laid, long before it hatches. They have to be, for the chick to survive -- they breed during the winter, and the egg must incubate in harsh weather. After the egg hatches, the chick's parents continue taking care of him for several months, until he is grown enough to learn to hunt for his own food.

1. Protecting the Egg

Emperor penguins always breed during the Antarctic winter, laying their eggs in May. After the female lays her egg, she passes it off to the male, who keeps it warm by tucking it under a pouch of skin above his feet. He balances the egg there for about 64 days, during which time the female travels to the ocean to hunt. The male huddles with the other males in his colony, and they help each other stay warm while they fast, incubate their eggs and dutifully wait for their partners to return.

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2. Post-Hatching Feeding

The colony's females return around the time that the eggs hatch, with bellies full of food to feed their young. They take over caring for the hatchlings, regurgitating the food they caught while the males travel to the ocean for their first meal in more than 100 days. For the next 50 days or so, the parents continually switch back and forth, one hunting while the other stays with and feeds the chick.

3. Time Apart

When the chick is about 2 months old, he starts spending more time away from his parents, though he still depends on them for food. The parents leave him in a group of chicks called a creche, which is supervised by other penguins in the colony. They can then go hunt together; this is not as time-consuming as it was during the winter, as the warmer spring weather brings the shoreline closer to the colony's nesting site. When the parents return to the colony, they reunite with their chick to regurgitate for him.

4. Full Independence

At the beginning of summer, the colony's chicks become fully independent and the colony travels as a group to the sea for hunting. Because emperor penguins breed and incubate their eggs during the harsh winter, the young are old enough to transition to independence during summer, when food is most abundant. At this point the chicks are about 150 days old and only beginning to lose their fluffy down feathers, but they are mature enough to no longer depend on their parents, and they learn to hunt and feed themselves.

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MANATEE HABITAT PROTECTION
As human population growth and development continues waterfront Florida, manatees are losing habitats they rely on to survive. Development can damage seagrass (the main food source of dugongs "), degrade water quality and reduce the availability of warm water from natural streams provide manatee refuge during periods of cold weather . At temperatures below 68 degrees Fahrenheit, the stress of cold can be dangerous, or even fatal for manatees.

Problem
residential development and trade has reduced the number of natural warm springs that manatees once used to keep warm in winter. Now, most manatees rely on warm water outlet that the power plant production. But if the plant is shut down, or their equipment, manatees will remain in the cold. The Florida manatee survival will depend on the protection of natural warm springs that they rely on, and make sure they can enjoy a safe place.

How We're Helping
We have been campaigning for the establishment of more protected areas for manatees, including Three Sisters Spring in Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, and Kings Bay Manatee Refuge, to manatees can shelter in the hot springs which they need for their travel and reducing the threat from speeding boats. And we continue to advocate for increased protection and restoration of natural stream so that more manatees can use them to keep warm in winter. Defender also commented on the plan of conservation and management of these and other protected areas to ensure that healthy seagrass for manatees.

We are also encouraged agencies and utility companies to develop plans for manatees in mind so that any future changes in power plant operations do not endanger species marine.

And finally, the defender is working to ensure that critical manatee habitat - that is, a special habitat for manatees are protected under the Endangered Species Act - will be modified to include most important areas, such as warm water, travel corridors, and food sources. Although Fish and Wildlife Service determined that the United States revision of critical habitat manatees "is necessary, it has not made this modification is a priority, so we continue to promote this essential step.

BASIC FACTS ABOUT fishermen
Fishermen (Martes pennanti) is a member of the weasel family, similar to a marten.

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Diet
Do you know?

Despite their name, fishers do not hunt or fish!

Fishers eat snowshoe hares, rabbits, rodents and birds, and is one of the few specialized predators of porcupines. Fishermen are efficient hunters, but also known to eat insects, seeds and fruits when prey is not available.

Population
Fishermen are very popular in the Northeast and Midwest, but rare in the northern Rockies and Northwest, where they are one of the rarest carnivores.

Limit
Fishermen are only found in North America. Historically, it oscillates northern forests of Canada and the United States as well as the forests of Appalachia, the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast. Today, fishermen found only in parts of their historical range. In the United States, they exist in parts of the Appalachian Mountains from southern New England to Tennessee; northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan peninsula on; North Idaho and western Montana; West Coast and three small populations in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California southern Sierra Nevada. Reintroductions led to reoccupy their former habitat in Idaho, Michigan, Montana, Nova Scotia, Vermont, West Virginia, Maine, Manitoba, Minnesota, New York, Ontario and Tennessee.

Behavior
Fishers prefer large areas of dense mature coniferous or mixed forest and the animals alone. They are mostly at night, but can operate in daylight. They walked for several miles along the ridge in search of prey, seeking shelter in hollow trees, logs, rocks, and the dens of other animals.

Born
Mating season: April.
Gestation: egg implantation is delayed until February or March next year, followed by a period of 30 days pregnant.
Click the garbage: 1-4 kits.

The kits stay with their mother until the autumn.

Threats to Fishers
Through harvested for pelts and habitat loss due to forest exploitation and road construction have dropped significantly and range fragmentation of fishermen.

Climate change could increase the frequency of fires across the scope of the fishermen, removed, old trees bearing cavity they need to Denning.

Defenders are Doing nothing to help Fishers
In both Northern Rockies and their Western bank, Defender is working to ensure full federal protection for fishermen and their habitats, a positive impact on policies and decisions that affect to them - such as trapping in Montana, or logging on private land in California - and prepare for changing habitat due fishermen climate change.

BASIC FACTS ABOUT Diamondback terrapins
Named for the development round diamond on its shell, is Plutella terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) a turtle is derived from eastern and southern United States.

Diet
Diamondback terrapins consumption of fish, snails, worms, clams, crabs and marsh plants.

Limit
The diamondback terrapin is found along the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States from Cape Cod to Florida Keys and west along the Texas Gulf coast.

Behavior
The diamondback terrapin turtle is said to be the world's only that personal life in brackish water (containing some salt, but not as much as seawater), habitats such as tidal marshes, estuaries and lagoons. Most turtles hibernate during winter by burrowing into the mud swamp. Diamondback terrapins live Although tidal marshes, estuaries and lagoons, areas of their favorite nesting beaches are sandy.

Born
Mating Season: May to July.
Gestation: About 60 days.
clutch size: 8-12 eggs.

Diamondback terrapin human sex is determined by temperature - higher temperatures nesting females produce more than a lower temperature while production teams than men.

The hatchlings emerge from August to October and is completely alone. Only 1-3% of egg production put a seed, and the number of offspring surviving to adulthood is said to be similarly low.

After hatching, some children remaining in the nest in the winter, though most appear and enter the nearest water body.

Threats
The diamondback terrapin is threatened by habitat loss, road construction (terrapins are often traffic accidents) and drowning in crab traps.

Climate change is also ready to bring major changes to their habitat and freshwater turtle life cycle. By the end of this century, sea levels are expected to rise from 2.25 feet under a low emission scenario and up to 3.25 feet in the highest emission scenario.

Because of land subsidence in the Northeast, the impact of the increase will seem higher than it really is about 10 to 20%. Saltwater intrusion into brackish tidal marshes will alter its character and capable of making large areas saltier than freshwater turtles can tolerate. Storms and coastal erosion threaten nesting habitat for their favorite. And high temperatures on the nesting beach can skew the sex ratio of offspring.
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