Tiger Extinction

Tigers are going to be extinct

The amount of tigers in the early 1900s was upwards of 100,000 tigers alive and well. The amount of tigers in 1980 were less then 4,000. Along the way the Bali tiger, the Caspian tiger, and the Javan tiger all became extinct. The years were 1930s, 1970s,  and 1980s. Today all 5 types of tigers are on the critically endangered species list and it doesn't look like they are coming off. Most tigers are on reserves and in zoos only for there own protection and possible reproductive reason. The Amoy tiger was in upwards 4,900 in 1949, to today there is only 50.  None are known to be surviving in the wild, all are in zoos and wildlife preserves. Each of the tigers species is in danger. Personally i would love to have my own tiger and save them from extinction. 

ROAR

"Concerned that there are only 4,000 wild tigers left in the World, pupils will be undertaking a fundraising and awareness challenge called ROAR! Read, Observe and Rescue. All money raised will go to 21st Century Tiger, the Zoological Society of London's tiger conservation project. The school will celebrate World Book Day a day late on Friday 2 March with all 200 pupils invited to dress in tiger costumes instead of their usual uniform. During the month pupils will take part in challenges to obtain sponsorship for the number of books they read about tigers and animal conservation. Highlights of the programme include a tiger poetry and writing workshop by the poet Ruth Padel, Charles Darwin's great great grand-daughter, author of Tigers in Red Weather. The Very Revd Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark, will lead a spiritual workshop based on William Blake's poem The Tyger."  -http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5863

Nawalparasi police nabbed 4 suspected tappers on endangered tiger’s hide at Bardaghat.A brigade rounded them up at TCN thoroughfare in Bardaghat, Nawalparasi gatherd information that they were arriving at the place with the tiger’s hide DSP Ram Datta Joshi made four people public along with the tiger’s hide, with the girth of 11ft length and 6ft width, identifying them as Tej Bahadur Tamang and Ram Bahadur Tamang of Dharke VDC, Dhading. The other two persons Keshav Chaudhary of Tilakpur VDC -8 and Mohan Harijan of Manari VDC-3 of Nawalparasi were arrested while they were smuggling the contraband to Kathmandu.The smugglers do poach tigers in the Chitwan National Park and store their hide at Tribeni of Nawalparasi before they ferry it to China via Kathmandu during night, said police after a preliminary investigation into the incident. Police said, they will send the convicts along with the hide to the District Forest Office.Mthere is no video about this.

Sumatran habitats destroyed

The habitat of the endangered Sumatran tiger is being obliterated to make tissues and paper packaging for consumer products in the west, new research from Greenpeace shows. A year-long search by Greenpeace shows clear evidence, it appears that ramin trees from the Indonesian rainforest have been cut down and shipped to factories to be pulped, smashed and turned into paper. The name ramin refers to a bunch of different endangered trees growing in peat swamps in Indonesia where the small number of remaining Sumatran tigers hunt.

White Tigers find a new home

Rewa Maharaja Martand Singh, a tiger breeder, fight laid eyes on this male white tiger during his trip, in 1950, to Govindgarh jungle. He searched do for months and months until he captured the first living white tiger in the wild. This breeder, along with official veterinary experts bred the white tiger with regular female tigers with no luck. In the last year of the tiger's life, 1958, this breeder successfully bred a new group of white tigers. The white tigers have a larger body and bigger features but the Bengal tigers are superior in agility. In early 1800s white tigers were in Bengal, Bihar and Assam, with 30,000 tigers in India every 1 in 10,000 normal tiger born is white only because of mutation of the color gene. This white tiger was the last wild white tiger but his genes are helping to re create the endangered sub-species in captivity.