Govt to set aside 30 million ha for rare species

Govt to set aside 30 million ha for rare species The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 08/10/2010 9:27 AM | National The government plans to set aside 30 million hectares of protected forests for habitats for endangered species in order to prevent their extinction. Forestry Ministry Zulkifli Hasan warned that the shrinking number of rare [...]

Dhaka, Delhi join global move to save tigers

Dhaka, Delhi join global move to save tigers Dhaka, July 30 – Bangladesh and India, home to the famous Royal Bengal tiger, will attend the 13-nation Tiger Conservation Summit in St. Petersburg in September to plan out urgent measures to save the species. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina may attend the meeting of the Tiger [...]

World tiger population declines to 3200

World tiger population declines to 3200 Bali, July 12, 2010 Tigers in the wild at Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The Indian tiger population s fallen to 1,411. File Photo. Tigers are on the brink of extinction because only about 3,200 tigers are left in the world today, a report has said. The still [...]

A Competition to Save the Sumatran Tiger

A Competition to Save the Sumatran Tiger April 25, 2010 Tasa Nugraza Barley Listen up. If you are between 18 and 25 years of age, are concerned about saving the Sumatran tiger from extinction and live in Indonesia or Germany, then there is a competition that is just for you. Forest Friends, a joint program [...]

Call for saving the tiger raised as China gets into year of the tiger

Call for saving the tiger raised as China gets into year of the tiger Saibal Dasgupta, TNN, 14 February 2010, 06:11pm IST BEIJING: Wildlife conservationists have stepped up pressures on the Chinese government to do more to protect the tiger as the country went about celebrating the advent of the year of the tiger on [...]

In year of tiger, hardly 50 roam China

In year of tiger, hardly 50 roam China Reshma Patil Beijing, February 09, 2010 First Published: 00:36 IST(9/2/2010) Last Updated: 00:38 IST(9/2/2010)    China is struggling to save its less than 50 wild tigers even as the Chinese zodiac enters the lunar year of the tiger on Sunday. Conservation efforts are honing in on the [...]

Mekong tiger population at ‘crisis point’: WWF

An Indochinese tiger found mainly in Malaysia and Thailand at the national zoo in Kuala Lumpur, in 2002 Mekong tiger population at ‘crisis point’: WWF (AFP) – 1.25.2010 BANGKOK — Governments must act decisively to prevent the extinction of tigers in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region, where numbers have plunged more than 70 percent in [...]

Indochinese tigers on brink of extinction – WWF

Indochinese tigers on brink of extinction – WWF Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:25am EST BANGKOK, Jan 26 (Reuters Life!) – Tigers in the Greater Mekong region are facing extinction, their numbers down more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade due to poachers and habitat destruction, conservationists say. A new report by wildlife [...]

Die of the Tiger

Beautiful … but these stunning creatures might not be around much longer. Die of the Tiger By BEN JACKSON, Environment Editor Published: Monday, 11 January 2010 EXPOSED, under threat and no longer on the prowl. It is a sad twist that with the Chinese year of the Tiger beginning next month, the fate of the [...]

Battle will be stepped up this year to save the tiger

Battle will be stepped up this year to save the tiger Tigers top WWF list of 10 important endangered species as biodiversity campaign is launched Robin McKie, Science Editor The Observer, Sunday 3 January 2010 Scientists and conservationists are to intensify their efforts this year to save one of Earth’s most powerful, and threatened, creatures: [...]