Tigers In the News
- Sumatran Elephants Join Tigers on Critically Endangered List
The Sumatran elephant has been downgraded from “endangered” to “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) after losing nearly 70 percent of its habitat and half its population in one generation, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced today. The decline is largely due to elephant habitat being deforested or converted for agricultural plantations. - Exotic Animals: Laws Loom in Virginia, Elsewhere, After Ohio Escape
In Ohio, authorities gunned down dozens of dangerous animals that their owner had released shortly before committing suicide. The incident galvanized debate over whether people should be allowed to keep exotic animals. - Volunteers Clear Traps for Endangered Siberian Tigers in NE China - Xinhua
Dozens of volunteers braved freezing temperatures and knee-high snow to clear traps for endangered wild Siberian tigers in northeast China this week. - Rare Sumatran Tiger Dies in Indonesia
An endangered Sumatran tiger that was rescued from a wire trap in a protected Indonesian jungle has died from its injuries, according to a conservation official. - Vietnam Police Seize Tiger Carcass From Restaurant
Police have confiscated the carcass of an endangered wild tiger from a Hanoi restaurant where it was being boiled down to make an expensive traditional medicine.