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NY Times 2019: Bengal Tigers May Not Survive Climate Change https://archive.is/Fg5OM#selection-255.0-255.44

NY Times 2019: Climate change is now pushing the Bengal tiger closer to extinction https://archive.is/0qbcz#selection-553.0-559.23

NY Times 2020: India Sees Coronavirus Threat to Fragile Population: Tigers https://archive.is/PnuV3#selection-441.0-441.59

Human development and trophy hunting are threats, but they aren't the only ones.

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Posting NY Times articles isn’t an argument. If you believe climate change is the main cause here, post a legitimate and peer reviewed study by people on the ground. This looks like you’re high on sensationalist doomerism.

The articles are based on peer reviewed studies.

The problem with the post is that Bengal Tiger != Indian Tigers. Bengal Tigers are a subspecies of tigers and not many of them are even in India.

The issues faced by Indian tigers was loss of habitat due to human encroachment (which will be worsened due to human migration due to climate change), whereas the major future threat to Bengal tigers, which live primarily in the low lying Sunderban areas of Bangladesh, is climate change.

So both things are true because we are talking about completely different groups of animals.

the sunderbans have a very low amount of Tigers. Most of India's Tigers are in the states of madhya pradesh, Karnataka and maharashtra which are not affected by rising sea levels as much as bengal as they are plateaus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India

royal bengal Tigers are the SAME as Indian Tigers. The British first saw them in bengal and hence their name. They are spread all over India https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_tiger

>Human development and trophy hunting are threats, but they aren't the only ones.

You are arguing against a statement that nobody made.

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