Saturday, June 9, 2007

Tigers on a catastrophic path to extinction

World's tigers on "catastrophic" path to extinction (Reuters)

A Siberian Tiger cub yawns in an enclosure at the Siberian Tiger Forest Park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, April 23, 2007. The world's wild tigers are on a 'catastrophic' path to extinction as numbers continue to decline because of increased poaching, habitat destruction and poor conservation efforts by governments, a new report has said. (China Daily/Reuters)Reuters - The world's wild tigers are on a "catastrophic" path to extinction as numbers continue to decline because of increased poaching, habitat destruction and poor conservation efforts by governments, a new report has said.


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