This week world leaders are gathered for a special conference to protect and save the endangered wild tiger population ~ An article to share from Earth Times November 2010 ~ Blessings ~
The world’s tigers are in danger of extinction by 2022, warned world leaders as they gathered in St Petersburg Sunday for a special conference on the animal with hopes of hammering out a rescue package for the endangered predator.
Kicking off the four-day conference, the animal protection group World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) warned that the planet’s last free- roaming tigers faced extinction by the year 2022.
WWF general director James Leape said that only around 3,200 tigers are still living wild in 13 countries.
Attendees hope to agree a plan to almost double the animal’s global population to 6,000 by 2020. To do so, they will have to find some way to alleviate the problems of poaching and smuggling.
By WWF accounts, the meeting is the first one in which government leaders will be debating the fate of a single animal species.
What is needed is to persuade those people who inhabit regions together with tigers to join the cause of protecting the animals.
The conference is due to discuss proposals for protecting the world’s largest predatory cats, with the aim of doubling the tigers’ worldwide numbers.
Along with the lion… tigers are one of the most intriguing, beautiful, and intelligent animals on earth. I’ve read that in certain places that are their known habitats, people kill them to use their bones for herbal medicine. So sad. I truly hope that something could be done to protect them.
Thank you for bringing awareness to the cause to protect them, as all animals should be.
“WWF general director James Leape said that only around 3,200 tigers are still living wild in 13 countries” – this is a alarmingly low number. Thank goodness there are organizations like WWF that exist to intervene on behalf of those creatures without a voice.
Thank you ~ hopefully every voice of concern will help in the fight to save the tiger ~ The WWF and other experts say the alarming figure of about 3,200 tigers remaining in the wild today is a dramatic plunge from an estimated 100,000 a century ago…
“Wild tigers are not only a symbol of all that is splendid, mystical and powerful about nature,” the Global Tiger Initiative said in a statement. “The loss of tigers and degradation of their ecosystems would inevitably result in a historic, cultural, spiritual, and environmental catastrophe for the tiger range countries.”
Three of the nine tiger subspecies – the Bali, Javan, and Caspian – already have become extinct in the past 70 years…
A hopeful sign out of the tiger conference is that all 13 countries that have wild tigers have signed an agreement to take steps to save the tiger – a blessing ~ The 13 countries that still have tiger populations are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and Russia ~
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