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.