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The main issue with the Wittig study is that it seems the authors already have the interpretation of tiger subspeciation before the actual results, based on the fact that some of the authors have already proposed this structure.
Regarding conservation, I feel the issue lies more in the government initiative than the tiger taxonomic debate as the paper proposes. In the end, each country is responsible for the tigers within its borders, regardless of subspecies. Tiger subspecies isn't even very debate by most, including conservationist despite the clinal variation proposal dating back to the beginning of this century.