Summit agrees tiger recovery plan

BBC News, November 24, 2010

Governments of 13 countries where tigers still live have endorsed a plan to save the big cats from extinction.

Delegates at a summit in St Petersburg, Russia, agreed to double tiger numbers by 2022.
The countries will focus on protecting tiger habitats, addressing poaching, illegal trade and providing the financial resources for the plan. In the last 100 years, tiger numbers have dropped from about 100,000 to less than 3,500 tigers in the wild today. Read more...

Tiger Among US

WWF International, October 2010


Did you know that there are more tigers in American backyards than there are in the wild around the world? The United States has one of the largest populations of captive tigers in the world − estimated at perhaps 5,000 tigers, compared to as few as 3,200 in the wild. They are found in backyards, urban apartments, sideshows, truck stops and private breeding facilities.In many jurisdictions, people can legally keep a tiger on their property without reporting it to local officials or neighbors. In some states, it is easier to buy a tiger than to adopt a dog from a local animal shelter. Rarely can officials determine how many tigers there are in captivity within state borders − or where they are, who owns them, or what happens to their body parts (highly prized on the black market) when they die. Read more...

Myanmar creates world's largest tiger reserve, aiding many endangered Southeast Asian species

ENN, August 06, 2010

Myanmar has announced that Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve will be nearly tripled in size, making the protected area the largest tiger reserve in the world. Spanning 17,477 square kilometers (6,748 square miles), the newly expanded park is approximately the size of Kuwait and larger than the US state of Connecticut. Read more...

Wild tigers in China declining - habitat destruction, poaching to blame

ENN, February 8, 2010

China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday.
Tigers once roamed huge swathes of China, right up to the now booming east coast. Their population has collapsed due to habitat destruction on the back of rapid economic development and poaching for tiger products to use in traditional medicine. Read more...

Δώδεκα κράτη της Ασίας και η Ρωσία δεσμεύθηκαν να τις διπλασιάσουν στα εδάφη τους μέχρι το 2022

ΟΙΚΟ Καθημερινής, 4 Φεβρουαρίου 2010

ΧΟΥΑ ΧΙΝ, ΤΑΪΛΑΝΔΗ. Δώδεκα κράτη της Ασίας και η Ρωσία δεσμεύθηκαν να διπλασιάσουν τον αριθμό των τίγρεων στα εδάφη τους μέχρι το 2022, να πατάξουν τη λαθροθηρία που εξαφάνισε τα μεγάλα αιλουροειδή και να απαγορεύσουν την κατασκευή γεφυρών και δρόμων που θα μπορούσαν να απειλήσουν το εύθραυστο οικοσύστημά τους.
Οι πρωτοβουλίες που ανέλαβαν, όμως, οι χώρες αυτές δεν περιλαμβάνουν σαφείς δεσμεύσεις χρηματοδότησης της προστασίας των τίγρεων. Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Siberian tiger in severe decline

BBC News, November 25, 2009

The last remaining population of Siberian tigers has declined significantly, according to research.
The work was carried out by the Siberian Tiger Monitoring Programme, which is coordinated by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Its report says that tiger numbers have shown a "declining trend" over the last four years, and the latest assessment counted just 56 of the animals. The organisation carries out annual tiger surveys at 16 monitoring sites scattered across the tigers' range. The monitored area represents about 15% of the animals' habitat in Russia. These surveys are done every winter, using tracks in the snow to estimate the population. Read more...

Η μοίρα των... δεινοσαύρων απειλεί τις τίγρεις

Ελευθεροτυπία, 29 Οκτωβρίου 2009

Σε λίγα χρόνια οι τίγρεις θα υπάρχουν μόνον στα βιβλία, εάν η διεθνής κοινότητα δεν λάβει μέτρα για να διασφαλίσει την επιβίωσή τους. Σε αυτό το δυσοίωνο συμπέρασμα έφτασαν οι περισσότεροι από 200 ειδικοί που μετέχουν σε διάσκεψη για την προστασία των επιβλητικών αιλουροειδών, στο Κατμαντού του Νεπάλ. Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Thousands protest against Indian tiger reserve

ENN, December 30, 2008

CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - More than 15,000 people in southern India protested against the extension of a new tiger reserve Tuesday, despite official assurances that they will not lose their homes to the sanctuary.
Representatives from all parties in Tamil Nadu state, including the state's ruling party, took part in what is the third such protest since November against the extension of the Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary, police said. Read more...

Malaysia 'to double tiger stock'

BBC News, December 22, 2008

Malaysia has launched a national plan to double the country's wild tiger population by 2020, activists say.
Conservation groups and the government have set an ambitious target of expanding the tiger population from 500 to around 1,000 over 12 years. Read more...

Cubs a ray of hope in India's fight to save tigers

ENN, May 6, 2008

Fourteen tiger cubs have been spotted in a leading Indian sanctuary, a rare piece of good news in the country's fight to protect its dwindling population of big cats from poachers and habitat destruction. The cubs have been sighted regularly over the past few weeks in Ranthambore National Park in western Rajasthan, R.N. Mehrotra, the state's chief wildlife warden, told Reuters on Tuesday. Read more...

Tiger numbers 'halve in 25 years'

BBC News, February 12, 2008

The world's tiger population may have halved in the past quarter of a century, conservationists from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have warned.
The WWF told a conference in Stockholm there might be only 3,500 tigers left, and that one sub-species, the South China Tiger, could soon be extinct. Read more...

Rare China tiger seen in the wild

BBC News, October 12, 2007

A rare South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) has been seen in the wild for the first time in decades, according to reports from China's official Xinhua news agency.
The sighting, which came after a farmer handed in some pictures, surprised researchers who feared the tiger was extinct. Read more...