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Wild Tigers Face New Threats by Tiger Farms
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by René | June 12, 2007 at 07:44 am
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Some Tiger populations are in grave danger. Some have already disappeared, some are rebounding. The Tigers of China have a beautiful lady going to bat for them. But there's a catch-22 in one effort to protect the wild population.
New Threat faces Wild Tiger Populations from Re-Opening of Trade in Tiger PartsScience Daily — The Hague — In the cover story of this months BioScience journal, leading tiger experts warn that if tigers are to survive, governments must stop all trade in tiger products from wild and captive-bred sources, as well as ramp up efforts to conserve the species and their habitats. The paper, “The Fate of Wild Tigers,” describes the wild tigers population decline as “catastrophic” and urges international cooperation to ensure the animals continued existence in the wild.
Habitat loss and intense poaching of tigers and their prey, combined with inadequate government efforts to maintain tiger populations, have resulted in a dramatic reduction in tiger numbers. These big cats now occupy just 7 percent of their historical range, according to the BioScience paper. And the possibility that China could reopen trade in parts harvested from farmed tigers represents a new threat, the authors say.
ScienceDaily: Viable Tiger Populations, Tiger Trade Incompatible
Four decades ago, approximately 4,000 South China tigers lived in the wild. Today there are only about 30. An additional 64 live in 19 zoos in China.
The tigers are in more danger of extinction than China’s most famous animal, the giant panda, according to Cai Qinhui, chief veterinarian of Guangzhou Zoo in southern China’s Guangdong Province. China’s Tigers.
Li Quan, a native of Beijing, former head of Gucci’s worldwide licensing business, founded –>Save China’s Tigers, in 2000. Photos of Li Quan, and her Chinese Tigers in South Africa
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at 10:39 on June 14th, 2007
René, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 08:30 on June 25th, 2007
Do you think tiger farming can help save wild tigers? To your article, to help answer this question, I wrote a follow up article, Tiger Farms for Farming Tigers.
And who is the "beautiful lady going to bat for them?"
at 15:36 on July 13th, 2007
The beautiful lady is Li Quan.
Tiger farms for tiger parts will only encourage poachers to cheat. Cheaper to poach than raise a tiger. They used to hang rustlers (cow poachers) in our West. Bet they don't hang tiger poachers as a deterrant.
Gross that all those Chinese men need tiger parts for their virility.
Isn't having the largest population in the world enough?
They have trouble feeding what they have.
Gross that they raise these beautiful fierce animals to supposedly provide virility assistance.
But tiger farms to increase the wild populations? ....well....I guess better than zoos, but not for selling off their parts.
at 05:41 on March 18th, 2009
hay guys wot an you do it help them