With the absence of emergency action to curtail ____ and preserve tiger habitats, few if any tigers, including the Sumatran tiger, will be left in the wild by 2022.
A) pollution
B) climate change
C) invasive species
D) fragmentation
E) poaching

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The sentence mentions the need for emergency action to curtail and preserve tiger habitats, which indicates that the main threat to the tigers is human intervention. Poaching is the most direct and pressing danger to the survival of tigers, as their body parts are valued in some cultures for their supposed medicinal properties.

With the Absence of Emergency Action to Curtail ____ and Preserve