Photographer Captures Photo of Rare Siberian Tiger
Fonseca is doing his part to ensure the Siberian tiger lives on. The German photographer has been using his photography skills to promote big cat conservation for years, and his current focus is specifically on the Siberian tiger.
“The very fact that there are wild Amur tigers in the world today is something of a miracle,” Fonseca says. “Only 3-4% of the area of an Amur tiger’s range are protected by wildlife reserves and national parks.
“Habitat loss, logging and mining, poaching, hunting, and a shrinking gene pool – the world’s largest cat clings to existence amidst a large number of interconnected problems.”
It is not just Siberian tigers that are at risk, though: tigers as a whole are endangered and on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, and it was estimated that there were less than 4,000 mature individuals in the world in 2015. Countries and organizations have launched new initiatives in recent years to protect the tiger, and the global tiger population has since increased to around 5,500 or more.
Image credits: All photographs, unless otherwise indicated, by Sascha Fonseca
“The very fact that there are wild Amur tigers in the world today is something of a miracle,” Fonseca says. “Only 3-4% of the area of an Amur tiger’s range are protected by wildlife reserves and national parks.
“Habitat loss, logging and mining, poaching, hunting, and a shrinking gene pool – the world’s largest cat clings to existence amidst a large number of interconnected problems.”
It is not just Siberian tigers that are at risk, though: tigers as a whole are endangered and on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, and it was estimated that there were less than 4,000 mature individuals in the world in 2015. Countries and organizations have launched new initiatives in recent years to protect the tiger, and the global tiger population has since increased to around 5,500 or more.
Image credits: All photographs, unless otherwise indicated, by Sascha Fonseca
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21 September 2023
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