1.   This last piece of information was particularly important for establishing how much territory an increasing tiger population in any area would need.

2.   Tiger populations in the Russian Far East are facing a shortage of prey species, ironically at a time when their own numbers have recovered substantially.

3.   Both of those estimates suggest that Texas ranks just after Asia in tiger population.

4.   But they are scattered in geographically separate pockets, many of which are probably too small to sustain a tiger population in the long run.

5.   Fisher explained that the experts on tiger populations decided Manfred and Malaya should breed, and they picked San Antonio as the place.

6.   In Russia, tiger populations are being tracked and protected using radio collars.

7.   In the mangrove swamps of Bangladesh, where biologists had thought tiger populations were relatively healthy, new survey results indicate fewer than the predicted number of cats.

8.   Nearly all of the governments of countries with tiger populations have passed laws to protect tigers or outlaw hunting, Burma being a glaring exception.

9.   Bangladesh does not have a figure on the tiger population of the forest, which is shared by Bangladesh and India.

10.   Similar smuggling takes place in Russia, where a wave of poaching is blamed for reducing the tiger population in the region by half within a decade.