Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is expected that tiger poaching will increase to satisfy the voracious Chinese appetite to eat more in an 'auspicious' year... Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > Howard, > > Better hurry on that tiger "shooting" safari. This story was in today's New > York Times. > > > "Could this Chinese Year of the Tiger be the last one with actual tigers > still afoot in the world?s wild? > > - Tiger Farms in China Feed Thirst for > Parts< > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/world/asia/13tiger.html?ref=weekinreview > >(February > 13, 2010) > > The numbers are not encouraging. Experts believe the global wild tiger > population has fallen to below 3,000 ? less than 3 percent of what it was > just 100 years ago. Today, their range has been reduced to small patches, > isolating many of the animals in genetically impoverished groups of dozens > of cats or fewer. > > In India, some famous tiger reserves have no tigers left at all." > > For full details see: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07marsh.html?ref=global-home > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >