Key findings of UN report:
- The Sundarbans, 10,000 square kilometres of marshy land in Bangladesh and India, supports several hundred animal species, including the Bengal tiger. But 70% of it is just a few feet above sea level, and faces threat of grave climate changes.
- The Bengal tigers are among 500,000 land species whose survival is in question because of threats to their natural habitats.
- By 2070, there will be no suitable tiger habitats remaining in the Bangladesh Sundarbans.
- In 2010, the World Wide Fund for Nature projected that a sea level rise of 11 inches could reduce the number of tigers in the Sundarbans by 96% within a few decades.
- Since the early 1900s, habitat loss, hunting and the illegal trade of animal parts have decimated the global population of tigers from around 100,000 to fewer than 4,000.
