Chinese tigers learn to hunt under an African sun in bid to save species

Published on Monday 27 February 2012 02:07 Any schoolchild will tell you that there are no tigers in Africa – but they would be wrong. They are hunting and breeding in the wild in the African bush in a remarkable scheme to save the most iconic sub-species of the magnificent Asian big cat from extinction. [...]

Environmentalists and investors draw claws over plan

Next generation … $30 million has been ploughed into helping secure the future of the endangered South China tiger. Photo: courtesy Li Quan Ben Cubby October 17, 2011. A BOLD plan to shield the South China tiger from extinction has become a battleground between environment groups and so-called ”angel investors”, who have plunged $30 million [...]

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 [...]

Tigers … hunting in South Africa’s Azanja Game Reserve

Tigers … hunting in South Africa’s Azanja Game Reserve SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMME TO RE-INTRODUCE THREE SOUTH CHINA TIGERS AND FOUR CUBS BACK INTO THE WILDERNESS Azanja, South Africa (Xinhua) — South China tiger ‘Cathay’  is seen while after hunting and killing an antelope at the ‘tiger reserve’ of Azanja in South Africa, April 07, 2010. A [...]

Animal Views – Tiger Pictures

Animal Views TWN NOTE: See more pictures of a clouded leopard, leopard cat, cheetah cubs and others at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/02/26/GA2010022602685.html Feb. 21, 2010 Raja, an eight-year-old rescued Royal Bengal Tiger, rests inside the tiger rescue center at Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary, about 99 miles north of the eastern Indian city of Siliguri. Feb. 20, 2010 One-month-old South [...]

China considers legalising tiger trade to curb poaching

China considers legalising tiger trade to curb poaching Ananth Krishnan BEIJING, February 13, 2010 Since 1998, China’s tiger population has halved to 3,200. There are just 50 wild tigers in China today. Even as China celebrates the start of the propitious Year of the Tiger this Sunday, conservationists fear the next 12 months could turn [...]

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 [...]