Source: The St. Petersburg Times
Heads of governments and ministers from the 13 countries that remain home to wild tigers will meet next week at the St. Petersburg International Tiger Forum hosted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in an attempt to stop the decline of tiger populations.
Source: RFI
Un jeune tigre blanc bengali de 9 mois, pensionnaire du zoo Royev Ruchey dans la ville sibérienne de Krasnoïarsk, le 7 novembre 2010. Reuters/Ilya Naymushin
Source: KOMPAS.com
Amid a serious threat to this big cat’s existence, more tigers are to born in Indonesia as the government has been committed to making that a reality. Such a commitment was recently made at the International Tiger Forum (ITF) in St. Petersburg, Russia. «This commitment is achievable as there is sufficient basic data on the population of Sumatran tigers, along with conservation programs already implemented,» said I Made Subadia Gelgel, senior Forestry Ministry official in a country report presented at the meeting.
Source: Lemonde.fr avec Reuters
Préserver les tigres des braconniers et des bûcherons illégaux dans quarante-deux territoires disséminés à travers l’Asie est crucial pour sauver cette espèce. AFP/ROMEO GACAD
Source: IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare)
As few as 3,000 tigers remain in the wild. 3,000. Worldwide. That’s not a typo. In 1900, there were more than 100,000.
Source: IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare)
As government officials from 13 tiger range states filed into a historic palace in St. Petersburg, Russia today to begin three days of high-level discussions on a global plan to save tigers, they were greeted by video messages from the world’s children that were recorded in more than 15 countries over the past six months by IFAW.
Source: Environment News Service (ENS)
At the International Tiger Conservation Forum this week in St. Petersburg, government leaders and ministerial officials of the 13 countries where wild tigers remain endorsed a wide-ranging plan to double the number of wild tigers by 2022.
Source: OurAmazingPlanet
On day two of the world’s first Tiger Summit, now underway in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a U. S.-based organization, announced it will funnel millions of dollars over the next decade into tiger protection efforts within the countries where the endangered cats live.
Source: CNN
In 2010, the Year of the Tiger, about 3,600 of the majestic predators remain in the wild, their existence threatened by habitat-loss and poaching.
Source: Free Media In Unfree Societies
Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to try to save tigers in the wild, but their numbers have continued to spiral downward over the past two decades.
Source: National Geographic News Watch
Nepal’s estimated 120 adult wild tigers do not take into account the young mountain landscape in the Churia region, so the country could be home to more big cats than believed.
Source: National Geographic News Watch
Nepal’s estimated 120 adult wild tigers do not take into account the young mountain landscape in the Churia region, so the country could be home to more big cats than believed.
Source: New Scientist
World leaders seeking to save tigers from extinction at the International Tiger Conservation Forum in St Petersburg, Russia, this week should give them more prey to hunt.
Source: Khaleej Times
Over the past decade, poachers have halved Asia’s population of tigers and are zeroing in now on the remaining, scattered 3,200. And what is the global conservation community doing to help? Doing what it does best: calling a meeting.
Source: China.org.cn
From 21 to 24 November 2010, the International Forum of Tiger Conservation convened in St. Petersburg, Russia. The reason for holding this «Tiger Summit» was to discuss how the tiger can continue to survive on our planet. This year is also the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar, and I was born in the Year of the Tiger, so I want to talk first about the relationship between the Chinese people and the tiger, and then about practical ways to protect the future of the tiger in China.
Source: Indian Express
Poachers are hunting down tigers across Asia and Russia for their skin, bones, and even private parts to sell on the lucrative wildlife black market. With populations dwindling, the world’s remaining 3200 wild tigers could use some help — and fast. And certainly, it looks like people from around the world are uniting to save the tiger — by declaring their intention, over and over.
Source: Indian Express
Poachers are hunting down tigers across Asia and Russia for their skin, bones, and even private parts to sell on the lucrative wildlife black market. With populations dwindling, the world’s remaining 3200 wild tigers could use some help — and fast. And certainly, it looks like people from around the world are uniting to save the tiger — by declaring their intention, over and over.
Source: Care2
The World Bank is proposing a new plan to help save the tiger, one of the most fascinating and critically endangered species on the planet. It is a great irony that one of the largest, fastest, powerful and most terrifying predators on Earth, is also among the most threatened and vulnerable animals. The tiger’s survival is precariously placed in the hands of underfunded and
Source: NatGeo Newswatch
For four days starting this weekend, government leaders from the 13 tiger range countries will be meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, to confirm a plan to restore and conserve one of the world’s most iconic big cats to its wild habitat.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Efforts to save the tiger, set to be addressed at a conference in Russia next week, will depend for a large part on the effectiveness of the shield India has tried to throw over the animal.
Source: The Huffington Post
It is critical that governments, conservationists, and individuals answer the question posed in yesterday’s Guardian article, «One Last Chance: Can We Save the Tiger?» With an unequivocal, yes! Yes, we can save the tiger and yes, we must save tigers.
Source: Express Buzz
Shekar Dattatri’s latest documentary The Truth About Tigers combines brilliant footage with deep insights into the animal’s disappearance. In an interview, the acclaimed wildlife filmmaker talks about the greatest threats to their survival and other issues.
Source: The Financial Express
This is the official Tiger anthem released by the environment and forest minister with a punch line: ’If the tiger goes, he will not go alone. You may soon follow’. This is no rocket science, but the very ‘circle of life’ taught to us in school books. Unfortunately, this very philosophy is absent from the consciousness of civil society, as well as machinery of successive elected governments. Not only is there total apathy, but also ignorance towards our natural history, conservation and its management.
Source: China.org
According to Sunday’s The Kathmandu Post daily, ahead of the International Global Tiger Forum (GTF) to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Nov.
Source: ABC Radio Australia
They can be fierce and seem almost invincible, but the number of tigers has fallen from 100,000 to just over 3,000 in the past century. A new report by a wildlife monitoring network estimates that more than a thousand wild tigers have been killed for their body parts in the last ten years alone. India is highest on the list, followed by China and Nepal. Conservation groups warn that if the trend continues, tigers numbers will continue to fall. They will meet in the Russian city of St Petersburg this weekend, along with representatives from the 13 countries that have tiger populations, to develop a global tiger recovery programme that will aim to save the big cats from extinction.
Source: Environment 360 (Yale University)
In the past century, populations of wild tigers have plummeted from 100,000 to 3,500. Now the World Bank and conservationists have launched an eleventh-hour effort to save this great predator, focusing on reining in the black market for tiger parts and ending the destruction of tiger habitat.
Source: Environment 360 (Yale University)
For more than three decades, Alan Rabinowitz has studied tigers, jaguars, and other wild cats in some of the world’s most remote regions. But working for years at the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, Rabinowitz did far more than research these great animals — he helped create parks and preserves to protect wild cats, including the world’s first jaguar sanctuary in Belize and a network of protected areas for tigers in the authoritarian nation of Myanmar.
Source: The People’s Daily (China)
After two oxen were eaten in Sandaowan Town, Yanji, Jilin province, experts from Beijing Forestry University have proved through DNA analysis that the predator was a wild Siberian tiger. This was the first signs of activity of Siberian tigers discovered in Yanji in nearly 10 years. Experts believe this implies an increasingly evident trend that the habitats of wild Siberian tigers are expanding from the China-Russia border areas to include China’s inland areas.
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