"Thanks for this, it is indeed a good coverage on the issue."
Sujoy Banerjee
Director -Conservation Programme WWF-INDIA
"Your video is great."- Wong Jim Fong WILD ASIA
"Many thanks, It is the sup...
"Thanks for this, it is indeed a good coverage on the issue." Sujoy Banerjee Director -Conservation Programme WWF-INDIA
"Your video is great."- Wong Jim Fong WILD ASIA
"Many thanks, It is the support of people like you that makes us battle on in these critical times for wildlife. Videos like yours can help spread awareness - the key to putting governments under pressure and changing policies." Ritu Khanna WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOCIETY OF INDIA. ---------------------------------------- --
*Dedicated to those guards who put their life on the line for low pay to protect the tiger and its habitat.
Total captive tiger numbers= 10,000 +/- in various situations. (most are Amur/Bengal mixed)
Tiger numbers in the wild: (based on the most recent and factual data I could find) BENGAL TIGER= 1,200-1,450 (S.Asia: India) Low numbers due to loss of habitat with population boom, need for agriculture, illegal hunting, and poor protection. AMUR/ SIBERIAN TIGER= 400-500 (E. Asia: Russia, N.E. China) Low numbers due to illegal hunting in vast unprotected habitat as well legal hunting killing off their natural prey. Logging companies (some mafia influenced, clearing forest) INDOCHINESE TIGER= 700-1,200 (S.E. Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia) Low numbers due to fragmented habitat, devastation of forest for palm oil production, illegal hunting and poor protection. SUMATRAN TIGER= 300-350 (W. Indonesia: Sumatra) Low numbers due to loss of habitat, illegal hunting and poor protection. MALAYAN TIGER= 400-600 (S.E. Asia: Malaysia, Thailand) *decleared a separate subspecies from the Indochinese tiger in 2004. Low numbers due to loss of habitat from logging and agriculture. SOUTH CHINA TIGER= 10? (S.China) declared extinct in 2003. (One photo recently taken is being called a hoax.) Low numbers due to China's waiting until 1977 to outlaw hunting. No protection from illegal hunting. Loss of habitat. (A captive born male S. China tiger was born 11-23-07 in Africa)
WHAT I THINK WILL SAVE THE WILD TIGER: Letting U.S. corporations know that we want to be aware where our resources like Palm Oil come from. Our government letting China know we are unhappy with their wildlife policies (namely tiger parts used in traditional medicine) and poor protection of their endangered animals. Better protection for the tigers in their native habitats and their prey species by properly arming and funding the anti-poaching units, and better regulations allowing them to search for illegal trade. Less corrupt local governments to allow the people a chance at an economy that doesn't rely on illegal trade or over farming the land. More funding being sent over, possibly a tiger tax on all that own/exhibit tigers to go towards their conservation. For more info: http://www.tigrisfoundation.nl http://wildlifealliance.org http://www.wildasia.net http://www.iucn.org http://www.cawtglobal.org http://www.wpsi-india.org http://www.tigertrust.info http://www.defenders.org http://www.savethetigerfund.org http://www.wwf.org Please subscribe and watch my other wildlife videos.
*All tiger footage filmed at Big Cat Rescue, Tampa, Fl.
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The reason we can't save them is because humans are a vermin species. Mother nature has made us so that we have to destroy everything around us, like rats and mice do. In the absence of an effective predator we will son destroy the whole world... in fact the job is half done... mabye Stalin and Mao had a good idea when they exterminated all those people.. they gace the world and extra 20 years
Its very true and also very sad that we humans sooner or later will exterminate these beautiful cats(Siberian Tiger and also Bengal Tiger), and also other great predators like the Polar bear and the Kodiak bear. If we dont do something about it now, they`ll maybe gone within 10-20 years from now..
Interesting video, Makes a lot of good points. I know it's tempting to point the finger at,for instance, the Chinese. Tiger farming is horrific, but we also have to look at ourselves and try to learn more about what WE can do (e.g. not purchasing goods which destroy their habitat).
we can't save them because of chinese superstitious barbarians who created a market selling and trading dead tigers. Give tigers the same rights as humans, and prosecute poachers as murderers, who if convicted would face years in jail... it's that simple.
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But If you'd die to save them from extinction, that would be dieing for a good cause.
makes you think about the double edged sword