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Conservation, Green living, Nature, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Mar 30th, 2012,
Tigernation.org, an innovative new website which gives everyone a chance to follow the dramas of wild tigers in their Indian forest homes and at the same time help protect India’s wild tigers, launched this week. The site gives a graphic, never before illustrated insight into India’s threatened tiger population. Take a look at the infographic and video below to understand fully what Tiger Nation is trying to achieve and how important their cause is. This is an exciting website with everyone encouraged to have fun, learn and get involved in protecting the tigers. Subscribers to the site can follow the lives…
Tags: endangered species, endangered tigers india, infographic tigers, Tigernation.org, tigers
Conservation, Oct 20th, 2011,
On Tuesday night an exotic wild animal collector let loose 56 animals in Muskingum county, Ohio, a rural area of the United States. The collector, who has been identified as Terry Thompson, owner of Muskingum County Animal Farm, then killed himself. The drama that followed the animals release boiled down to police hunting down and killing the animals, including tigers and lions, for fear that they would attack people. From the Guardian: Animal bodies were seen scattered near a barn on the game preserve, and they were later buried there […] The preserve also had cheetahs, wolves, giraffes, camels and…
Tags: bears, exotic, killed, lions, Ohio, tigers, wild animals
Conservation, Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 10th, 2010,
Good news for tigers: the world’s largest tiger sanctuary is now open in Myanmar! The Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve is actually more than tripling the size of a tiger sanctuary already in place, and is now believed to take up the entire Hukaung Valley, which covers almost 8,450 square miles (21,970 square km). A sanctuary this big could hold up to several hundred tigers, but thanks to poaching, there may be less than 50 of these big cats left in the area. In addition to helping the tigers, this new sanctuary could also protect a number of other large species,…
Tags: big cats, Conservation, Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve, Hukawng Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar, Panthera, tigers, Wildlife Conservation Society, world's largest tiger sanctuary
Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 26th, 2010,
The tigers of the world face a dire situation. Many of them are endangered—or critically endangered—species and on the brink of extinction. Habitat loss and poaching are 2 of the biggest factors that continue to push their numbers lower. Fortunately, WWF is doing everything they can to help, but now they need your help, too. Coinciding with the Chinese Year of the Tiger, WWF has launched a new program to help save the Tigers. TX2 calls on the aid of you—people around the globe—to help the tiger. On their website, you will find information and images of tigers, news updates…
Tags: double tiger population, endangered species, program, save the tigers, tigers, TX2, WWF
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 11th, 2010,
Asian tigers have reached dangerously low numbers. Habitat destruction and poaching are 2 of the main culprits behind this decline. Since the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Tiger is right around the corner, there’s a good chance tiger poaching will be on the rise this year, especially since tigers have been used in Chinese medicine for quite some time. Unfortunately for some tigers, it seems the increased poaching has already started. Malaysian tribesmen are being paid to trap and kill wildlife, including critically endangered tigers. One man recently involved in a tiger attack, Yok Meneh, claimed he fought…
Tags: critically endangered, endangered species, Malaysia, middlemen, paid for poaching, poaching, tigers, tribesmen, Year of the Tiger
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 2nd, 2010,
Recently, 13 Asian countries held a conference to determine the fate of tigers and how to proceed in helping them recover. Along with Russia, the nations vowed to double the number of wild tigers (currently a rough 3,200), take more serious action against poaching, and prohibit the building of any road or bridge that could harm the tigers’ habitat. Unfortunately, this vow does not include any money to fund their newly pledged conservation efforts. Instead, they plan to approach international groups, such as World Bank, for money and also to tap money from ecotourism, carbon financing, and infrastructure projects. Along…
Tags: 13 nations, Asia tigers, conference, doubling tiger numbers, endangered species, helping the tigers, meeting, Nature, tigers, WWF
Nature, Politics, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 30th, 2010,
![]( "<!--:en-->13 Countries Convene in an Effort to Save Asia")
' src='http://gf1.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/6405.jpg' alt='13-countries-convene-in-an-effort-to-save-asias-wild-tigers' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> If you’ve been keeping up with all the tiger news coming out lately, then you are probably aware that they face a crisis situation; especially those throughout Asia. In an effort to help save the tigers, 13 countries are currently convening at the first Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation. Their aim is to convince other countries to pledge to help the tigers, by setting population targets to help increase their numbers and also providing more funds towards tiger conservation efforts. The 13 countries involved with this meeting are: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand…
Tags: 13 countries, conference, Global Tiger Initiative, meeting, Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation, tigers, World Bank
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 28th, 2010,
Tigers in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia are facing a most dire situation. The population of these tigers, which stretches across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, has plummeted from approximately 1,200 in 1998 to about 350 today. According to the WWF, that’s a drop of more than 70% in only 12 years—and certainly cause for alarm. A report released by the WWF went further to explain that the world’s wild tiger population is at an all-time low. Their numbers have dwindled down to 3,200, which is a far cry different from the 100,000 of them that roamed…
Tags: Greater Mekong region, Southeast Asia, tiger crisis, Tiger Summit, tigers, WWF, Year of the Tiger
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 21st, 2010,
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' src='http://gf3.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/5505.jpg' alt='chinas-wild-tigers-face-extinction-in-30-years' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> China’s wild tigers are moving ever close to extinction and unless something is done, it may be a mere 30 years before they are completely wiped out. Right now, China’s State Forestry Administration (SFA) estimates that only 50 wild tigers are left: 20 Bengal, 20 Siberian, and 10 Indochinese. Their habitats have been on the decline or, in some cases, completely destroyed. Humans continue to poach the tigers and their prey, despite the tigers’ critically endangered status. One tiger may not have even made it this far: the South China tiger. Their numbers were around 4,000 in 1950, but once…
Tags: 30 years, bengal tiger, China’s wild tigers, endangered species, extinction, indochinese tiger, Save China’s Tigers, siberian tiger, tigers, WWF
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Oct 31st, 2009,
Henry David Thoreau once said: “It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious”. If only people today saw things the same way he did. The future of the world’s tigers is diminishing fast and looking very bleak, despite efforts made to protect them and bring them back. Of the nine known subspecies of tigers, 3 became extinct during the 20th century; the beginning of which saw more than 100,000 tigers in existence. Now their numbers have dwindled down to 3 or 4 thousand at the most. The other…
Tags: endangered species, Nature, poaching, population decrease, tigers, Wildlife & Flora
