Year of the Tiger billed as last stand against extinction FEATURE 03/19/2010

Year of the Tiger billed as last stand against extinction

FEATURE 03/19/2010 KUALA LUMPUR — The Year of the Tiger has been billed as the big cat’s best chance to escape extinction, but activists say poaching and government inaction are undermining a campaign to double the number of wild tigers. Just 3,200 tigers are believed to survive in the jungles of Asia and the forests of Russia’s Far East, down from an estimated 100,000 a century ago, and that number is still declining. Butchered for traditional medicine, deprived of their habitat and killed for encroaching on villages — the onslaught has already seen three sub-species wiped out and the South China tiger has not been sighted for decades..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100319com6.html

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