Tigers In the News
- Rare Tiger Sighting Provides Inspiration for Conservation
Chowdury’s work is part of WWF’s efforts to provide a safe place for tigers to move freely between two separate habitats. His tiger sighting took place in a corridor where the mighty River Kosi separates the Corbett Tiger Reserve from the forests of the Ramnagar Forest Division. This wildlife corridor is critical for big cats to move between the two places. - Conservationists Step Up Efforts to Defend the Wild Tiger
Partners in the Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) opened a 2-week training course for wildlife conservation professionals at Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal today to introduce smart patrolling practices and technology in the struggle against poachers and wildlife crime networks. Nearly 40 practitioners from Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Russia are attending the course from January 30 to February 13, 2012. - Why Exotic Animal Trade Grows in Asia
The destruction of its habitat and its low reproduction rate are why the loris is classified as facing extinction under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which bans their trade, along with many other species. But at the Jatinegara market, there is no attempt to conceal the sale of loris or many other endangered species. Orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and Javan eagles are just a few of the threatened species in Indonesia's animal markets. - 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.