TIGERS IN CRISIS NEWS for April 2013
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| SOS Helps Funds Smart Effort to Save Tigers |
| SOS - Save Our Species (SOS), is helping to fund SMART technology to help save endangered tigers according to Jean-Christophe Vié, Deputy Director of IUCN’s Global Species Programme and Director of SOS. Vié says that by demonstrating progress in these nine sites... |
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| Nepal and India Count Their Bengals Tigers |
| Nepal and India kicked off a historic joint tiger census on Tuesday, sending out experts to count the number of endangered Royal Bengal tigers living in their shared border region.
The area in question is thought to be home to some 500 tigers, making it one... |
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Tiger Tracker: From a Conservation Biologist
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| Ahmed is a full-time tiger tracker and staff biologist for Aaranyak, a nonprofit organization dedicated to wildlife conservation. He also studies turtles and other reptiles. One of his primary work sites is Kaziranga National Park. The area's rich biodiversity has earned it recognition.. |
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| Nepal To Limit Growth of Endangered Species |
| Nepalese officials have said they will be limiting the growth of more than a few endangered species including tigers and rhinos due to a “significant increase” in the number of attacks on humans by wild animals. Nearly 24 percent of Nepal’s land area is classified as protected... |
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| Burden of Care Over Seized Wildlife in Thailand |
| Over the past two years, officials here have captured more than 46,000 animals from traffickers, vendors and trappers, more than double the 18,000 seized the two previous years. Now the government faces the quandary of what to do with all the creatures it has saved. |
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| Man Jailed Over Major Seizure of Tiger Parts |
| Activists today slammed a two-year jail term handed to a Malaysian man over the country’s biggest seizure of illegally trafficked tiger parts as too short and a “demoralising finale” to the case.Eight tiger skins, and 22 tiger skulls and bones were discovered at the home of... |
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