00:00Many species around the world are endangered, and as their numbers dwindle, it becomes harder
00:08and harder to keep an eye on these vulnerable creatures.
00:11That's why NASA is turning some of its satellites around, looking at Earth and its most endangered
00:16animals instead of the blackness of space.
00:19Specifically, NASA's eye in the sky will be tracking habitat loss, what environmental
00:23experts say is the single biggest threat to species globally.
00:26One of the first species whose habitat is being tracked are tigers.
00:30According to experts with the Wildlife Conservation Society, some 93% of all tigers have disappeared
00:35in just the last 150 years.
00:37However, new NASA data reveals there may be hope.
00:40Their observations found that in their native lands of Asia, there are still many viable
00:44empty forest tiger populations could migrate to.
00:47With conservation ecologist Eric Sanders saying about it, if these habitats had sufficient
00:51prey and were tigers able to find them, the occupied land base for tigers might increase
00:56by 50%.
00:57The team are also looking at elephant populations in Asia as well, hoping to develop a conservation
01:02corridor away from humans.
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