International Tiger Day: Cherish all big cats!

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International Tiger Day is celebrated every year on July 29 to raise public awareness about endangered tigers.

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), there may have been 100,000 tigers at the beginning of the 20th century, but the population had fallen drastically to 3,200 by the year 2010.

Due to the alarming population drop, International Tiger Day was first observed in 2010 when 13 tiger range countries came together at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia and agreed on a global goal to double the number of wild tigers to 6,000 by 2022.

Wild tigers are top predators in Asian forests and grasslands. The big cats used to roam across most of Asia, but now they're restricted to just seven percent of their original range across 13 countries. Countries are now working to connect their isolated habitat and protect tigers.

A newborn female white tiger named Snow at the National Zoo in Masaya, Nicaragua, January 5, 2021. /CFP

Bengal tiger cubs born in captivity in Colombia, September 12, 2020. /CFP

This powerful but sleepy tiger erupts into an extraordinary yawn as it lies in the grass in the Bandipur National Park, India. /CFP

A tiger carries its tiny 6-week-old cub in its powerful jaws in Ranthambhore national park in Rajasthan, India. /CFP

An athletic young tiger springs high into the air as it play-fights with its sibling in India's Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. /CFP

A tigress named Taiga in an enclosure at Shkotovo safari park in Russia. /CFP

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