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Maps of Tiger Habitat
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Saving tigers needs more global money
By ASHOK SHARMA, Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI - Saving the world's remaining tigers will require as much as $500
million a year, but average annual international funding only comes to $5
million, a conservation group said Monday. Most of this was given to
non-governmental organizations, while governments of 12 countries with tiger
populations were expected to come up with funding themselves, S. C. Dey,
secretary-general of Global Tiger Forum, told reporters.
While Russia and India get up to 20 percent of money they spend annually on
tiger conservation from international funding, for other countries it was as
low as 1 percent, Dey said after the release of action plans for 12 countries
with wild tiger populations.
"As the world's wild tigers have dwindled to as few as 3,000, it is time for a
concerted effort to save the big cat from extinction," a Wildlife Trust of
India statement said.
Fred O' Regan, president of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said the
tiger was facing one of the worst periods of its existence.
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Well-Known Tiger 'Olga' Presumed Killed by Poachers
The first wild Siberian tiger ever fitted with a radio collar was killed by
poachers, officials believe.
The 14-year-old tiger, Olga, has been missing since January. She is presumed to
have been killed by poachers who destroyed her radio collar, according to a
statement released Thursday by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation
Society (WCS).
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Chinese tiger as good as extinct
Greg Breining, Chronicle Foreign Service
Saturday, January 11, 2003
"Even if a few remaining individuals or small populations remain, no existing
protected areas or habitat are sufficiently large, healthy or undisturbed
enough to retain genetically or demographically viable (tiger) populations," he
wrote in an as-yet unpublished paper.
The South China tiger is a sleek cat, averaging about 300 pounds. For the past
2,000 years, the animal has been the subject of Chinese art and literature and
revered by many as a symbol of strength and power and a living spirit of the
nation's sacred mountains.
It is also the only tiger that lives wholly within
China's borders and is reportedly being considered as the mascot of the 2008
Olympic Games.
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Exotic pets growing more accessible in USA
Saturday, December 07, 2002
By Tom Vanden Brook
USA TODAY
There are as many tigers kept as pets in the United States as there are living
in the wild, prompting calls for a stop to the importing of the big cats.
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Royal Bengal tiger kills six people in Nepal - radio
NEPAL: November 1, 2001
KATHMANDU - A Royal Bengal tiger has killed six people in villages around a
national park in southern Nepal over the past week, state radio reported.
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Thai Man Wants to Breed Tigers Like Cattle
Sunday, December 31, 2000
By Vijay Joshi
BAN DON YAI, Thailand
— Zoo owner and lawmaker Chuvit Pitukpornpunlob may have
caught a tiger by the tail.
If Chuvit has his way, tigers would be bred like livestock on farms and
slaughtered for their meat, bones and skin. Increasing the supply of tiger
parts, Chuvit says, is the best way to stifle a massive illegal international
trade in the endangered cats.
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Bengal tigers face shrinking refuge, food supply
Sunday, October 15, 2000
By Tharuka Dissanaike
---There are no royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh’s Dhaka Zoo. The only tigers
in this spit of land cradled by the Bay of Bengal roam the forbidding mangrove
swamps that lie south in the delta of the mighty Ganges River.
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Saving The Siberian Tiger
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Environmental News Network
By Marilyn Bauer
Wednesday, May 10, 2000
---With its striped length of strength, powerfully pointed teeth, golden eyes
and stalking silent walk, the world's biggest cat has captured imaginations
across cultures and continents.
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Keeping track of tigers
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Panda.org
By Usha Rai
January 1999
---As arguments rage over the state of India's tiger population, new guidelines
for trackers and a sophisticated checking method could finally produce a true
picture and put an end to the controversy.
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A lasting trust in tigers
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St. Petersburg Times
By PAUL WILBORN
November 27, 1999
---A tiger killed the most important people in his life, but Ron Guay
has found a way to ease his grief: with big cats.
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Saving Life Itself
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1999 Discovery Communications Inc.
Kanha Tiger Reserve, India,
November 24, 1999
Putting all considerations of beauty,
biodiversity and compassion aside for a moment, consider this: Why is it so
important to save the tiger?
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Man's Death in Tiger Cage a Mystery
Courtesy of the Pretoria News
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WildNet Africa (Pty.) Ltd.
May, 16 1998
---When Cape Town gas insulation mechanic Francois Cupido set out for a night on
the town, the last thing on his mind was a bloody ending in the tiger enclosure
of the East London Zoo. The 35-year-old widower's mutilated body was found by
zoo staff last Sunday morning, less than a day after he and five colleagues had
arrived in the Eastern Cape river port for a job in sprawling Mdantsane.
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