How many tigers have died from global warming?

Tigers have been victims of habitat loss and poaching, but it is difficult to know how many have died.

The wildlife site BigCatRescue reports the rising sea levels in West Bengal Sundarbans have raised the salinity of the tigers' drinking water. This habitat loss has forced the tigers to move into areas populated by humans, leading to more tiger-man conflict.

"If we don't take steps to address the impacts of climate change on the Sundarbans, the only way its tigers will survive this century is with Scuba gear," said Colby Loucks, who is the WWF-US deputy director of conservation science. He is the lead author of a study Sea Level Rise and Tigers: Predicted Impacts to Bangladesh's Sundarbans Mangroves.

These are only projections, however. Tigers in this area have always drank brackish water, and fresh water when they can obtain it, from rain to lakes built especially for them.