Extinct Tigers

Three tiger subspecies are considered to have become extinct in the past 70 years,the Caspian tiger, the Javan tiger and the Bali tiger.

The Caspian tiger, (Panthera tigris virgata), once ranged in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Mongolia, and the Central Asiatic area of Russia and probably went extinct in the 1950s.

The Javan tiger,(Panthera tigris sondaica), formerly ranged on the Indonesian island of Java and was last seen in 1972.

The Bali tiger, (Panthera tigris balica), once lived on Bali, where the last tiger was believed to have been killed in 1937.