Believe it or not, but there are more tigers in captivity than in the wild. Estimates put the population of captive tigers in private hands in the US alone at 5,000. In tiger farms across China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam there are thought to be over 8,000 more.

3,900 tigers

Between 7,000 and 8,000 tigers are believed to be held captive on breeding farms.

Today, the tiger is classified as Endangered in the Red List of Threatened Species published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and it is estimated that there are only 3,500 tigers remaining in the wild worldwide.

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• An Amur Leopard Cub lounges in a tree Shutterstock.
• Three species of rhino, including the black rhino, are critically endangered.
• A rare, endangered Sumatran rhino.
• Javan rhinos are the most threatened among rhinos.
• Bornean orangutan in the wild.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared 15 species extinct in 2020.

Top 10 Most Endangered Animals

1. Vaquita. The vaquita is both the smallest and the most endangered marine mammal in the world.
2. Amur Leopard. Unfortunately, Amur leopards are one of the world’s most endangered big cats.
3. Kakapo.
4. Gharial.
5. Tooth-billed pigeon.
6. North Atlantic right whale.
7. Saola.
8. Sea turtles.

By 2050, the global population is projected to rise to 9.7 billion, which is more than two billion more people to feed than today. When crops fail and starvation threatens, people are forced to fight or flee. So will the decline of mountain ice, which is a source of meltwater for a quarter of the world’s population.

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The world population is expected to reach 8.5 billion people by 2030. India will overtake China as the most populated country on Earth. Nigeria will overtake the US as the third most populous country in the world. The fastest-growing demographic will be the elderly: 65+ people will hit one billion by 2030.

In contemporary history, the third millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era in the Gregorian calendar is the current millennium spanning the years 2001 (MMI) to 3000 (MMM) (21st to 30th centuries).

A total solar eclipse occurs on 8th April 2024, visible across North America. * For observers on the continent, totality begins at the Pacific coast, moving in a northeasterly direction through Mexico, the USA, and Canada, before ending in the Atlantic Ocean.

For example: 2021-2020=1. It is therefore one year until this month and day in 2021. This same concept applies to the year 3000. Therefore, the same date and time in the year 3000 is 980 years away.

This conversion of 2,080 days to years has been calculated by multiplying 2,080 days by 0.0027 and the result is 5.6986 years.

The day and date will be Monday June 20, 2101 in 80 years from today.