Tiger posing at Casela nature park

Easily recognizable by its black-striped red fur, the tiger Panthera tigris is the largest wild cat and one of the largest land carnivores. A super-predator, it mainly hunts deer and wild boar, although it can attack larger prey such as buffalo. Rivaling the lion for the status of "king of animals" in traditional culture, the tiger is an iconic figure representing ferocity. Until the 19th century, its reputation as a man-eater stuck to it. However, among wild animals, tigers are generally not the ones who kill the most. And for good reason, the tiger is very quickly educated by its mother to avoid human beings who persecute it. The fascination that the tiger exerts by its charisma and its place in the collective unconscious makes it today one of the most poached species on the planet. Sought after for their skins but also for various parts of their body, supposed to cure various pathologies in traditional Chinese medicine, felines are victims of an international traffic, exercised by powerful mafias.