Panthera tigris ssp. balica

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

CARNIVORA

Family:

FELIDAE

Scientific Name:

Panthera tigris ssp. balica

Infra-specific Authority:

(Schwartz, 1912)

Common Name/s:

English

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BALI TIGER

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 3.1 (2001)

Year Assessed:

2003

Assessor/s:

Nowell, K. (Cat Specialist Group)

Evaluator/s:

Jackson, P., Breitenmoser, U., Breitenmoser-Wursten, C. & Nowell, K. (Cat Red List Authority)

Justification:

Tigers were last positively recorded from western Bali in the late 1930s. The Bali Barat National Park was established in 1941 in tiger habitat, but it is likely that Panthera tigris balica became extinct by the end of World War II or possibly as late as the early 1950s. The causes of extinction include hunting, and loss of forest habitat and prey base. There are no Bali Tigers in captivity.

History:

1965

"Very rare and believed to be decreasing in numbers" (Scott 1965)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Regionally extinct:

Indonesia (Bali)

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Threats

List of Threats:

1	Habitat Loss/Degradation (human induced) (past)
3	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) (past)
8.3	Changes in native species dynamics - Prey/food base (past)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Cat Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Nowell, K. and Jackson, P. (compilers and editors) 1996. Wild Cats. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. (online version)

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

Seidensticker, J. 1987. Bearing witness: Observations on the extinction of Panthera tigris balica and Panthera tigris sondaica. In: R.L. Tilson and U.S. Seal (eds) Tigers of the World: The Biology, Biopolitics, Management and Conservation of an Endangered Species, pp. 1-8. Park Ridge, New Jersey, Noyes Publications.

Citation:	Nowell, K. 2003. Panthera tigris ssp. balica. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 August 2008.
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