There was a rumor a few years back that one of the major logging company’s, of the time, was discreetly employing people to hunt and kill any tigers they could find.
I don’t know how true those rumors were but i can say that if tigers had been identified and accepted by the government of the time, the logging company would have had a much harder time logging the old growth forests.

I hope the tigers have a large enough population to bring themselves back form “extinction” but sadly i think it unlikely.