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He Who Was King
The tiger, once revered as King, is now barely viable in its natural habitat, with only a few thousand left of all remaining tiger species. Long ago people respected this beautiful big cat, then came greed and fear. The tiger is being stripped of its habitat, killed for its skin and bones, and the Tiger is near extinction.
Help first arrived for the tiger in the late '40s, when the the Soviet Union prohibited tiger hunting in 1947. Still the tiger populations around the world severly declined. With three extinct tiger species, Save the Tiger, projects sprang into action. But with no avail. It is a new millenium, and with six tiger species left in the wild, there are but a few hundred left of each.
There is probably no hope for this beautiful creature. But that does not give us the right to stop the damage our forefathers did, and the damage done today. Let's not have the only living tigers left for our future child to admire be the caged tigers in zoos.
Help first arrived for the tiger in the late '40s, when the the Soviet Union prohibited tiger hunting in 1947. Still the tiger populations around the world severly declined. With three extinct tiger species, Save the Tiger, projects sprang into action. But with no avail. It is a new millenium, and with six tiger species left in the wild, there are but a few hundred left of each.
There is probably no hope for this beautiful creature. But that does not give us the right to stop the damage our forefathers did, and the damage done today. Let's not have the only living tigers left for our future child to admire be the caged tigers in zoos.
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Tiger Poaching in the News
- December 3, 2010
- Experts Say China Fuels Tiger Poaching
- March 8, 2005
- Hunting for tiger poachers
- Ocober 26, 2005
- WWF: Tougher Fines for Tiger Poaching
- July 14, 2011
- Tiger poachers caught on camera
- February 8, 2010
- Wild tigers in China declining - habitat destruction, poaching to blame
- November 21, 2010
- Wild Tigers Could Be Extinct in 12 Years
- November 26, 2009
- Siberian Tigers Vanishing
- February 13, 2008
- Tiger Numbers Plummet in India
- November 26, 2011
- Tiger poaching in Panna a cause of concern
- October 23, 2011
- Seven notorious tiger poachers held in joint operations
- August 07, 2011
- After 50 tiger deaths, 3 poachers convicted
Tiger conservation videos on YouTube
Tiger Conservation Links
- Save the Tiger Fund
- Established in 1995 as a partnership between the ExxonMobil Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
- WWF
- The WWF Tiger Programme is working with local communities, governments and experts to provide a brighter future for tigers in the wild.
- Cambodia Tiger Conservation Program
- The Cambodia Tiger Conservation Program has hired former tiger hunters as community wildlife rangers, who are paid to protect tigers rather than poach them, and carry the message of tiger conservation to the remote rural villages where they live.
- Big Cat Rescue
- Big Cat Rescue, is a non-profit educational sanctuary, for exotic cats who have been abused, abandoned, bred to be pets, retired from performing acts, or saved from being slaughtered for fur coats.
- Indian Tiger Welfare Society
- Indian Tiger Welfare was founded to spread awareness and work towards building safe havens for tigers.
- Wildlife Protection Society of India
- Project Tiger was launched in India in 1973, with the goal of saving the tiger and its habitat in India. With an initial list of 9 Tiger Reserves, this Project went on to cover 28 Tiger Reserves across the country, incorporating an area of 37,761 sq. km.
- Tigerhomes.org
- This is a privately-run exotic animal sanctuary that strives to stimulate a global interest in wildlife conservation, education, and habitat protection via the Internet. We serve our goals by inviting our members, fans, teachers, students, and the general public directly into the naturalistic habitats and lives of the sanctuary resident Tigers, Lions, Leopards, Lemurs, and other rare and endangered animals.
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India's first anti-poaching tiger force begins work
January 4, 2012
54 men have been chosen to go forth into the forests of India and stop the poachers, and protect the tigers.
Now, there have been known cases of conservation park workers not protecting the tigers in their specially placed protected habitats.
So how are we to be cheerful of these 54 men? Can these men be truly trusted with the prevention of a species that has been on the brink of extinction since conservation efforts first went into place in 1973?
Article link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16410137
Tiger art on Zazzle
Danita Delimont Stock Photography
Flickr Photo feed of tigers
About the Photograph
This tiger was photographed in a nearby zoo. The tiger is a Siberian tiger. The photograph was taken with Pentax K10D. The photograph was then edited in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 to remove the captivity grounds, and to create the sleek black background.This image is available to purchase at my zazzle gallery, as a greeting card, poster, binder and many other merchandise.
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kimberly-j-t predicts:
Is this going to be just another failure of Eurasia on saving the Tigers?