Tigers Are Dying in Record Numbers in India

[wolfschanzze]

Tiger poaching is popular due to the demand of chinese who use its parts for traditional chinese medicine.

 

[Echo_419]

Should be more strict controls at the ports then. Recently a huge shipment of small black spot turtles was caught in Karachi Airport. Poor animal was jam packed in small containers.

Sometimes i think that we are such a Uncivilized Race

 

[Juggernautjatt]

Sometimes i think that we are such a Uncivilized Race

Reminds me of an incident in UP couple of months ago when a leopard trapped in well was killed mercilessly by mob with stones in front of media & forest officials.

 

[Jayanta]

But what do people do with poached tigers? It's not like you are consuming the meat.

Every part of the tiger body is used in traditional CHinese medicine.

 

[Viking 63]

This is very bad man, Tigers need to be protected at all cost. looking at the figures above they are near extinction.

 

[JanjaWeed]

Some 274 tigers have died over the last four years, most of them due to poaching

A record number of tigers died in India over the most recent census period, a total of 274 deceased in the last four years.

Only 82 of those tigers died due to natural causes, while more than 70 per cent of tiger deaths were due to poaching or for undetermined reasons, Indian science and environment magazine Down to Earth reports.

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar released the figures in response to a question in the Parliament on November 26.

India had approximately 1,706 tigers, according to the 2010 census. The overall population of tigers may not suffer when India’s official tiger population census for 2014 gets released next month.

“Here, we are not taking tiger births into account,” said S P Yadav, deputy inspector general with the National Tiger Conservation Authority. “An adult tigress can give birth to younger ones every 90 days. If, of 4-5 litters that a tigress gives birth to, even 1-2 survive, these numbers can be compensated.”

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With 274 tiger deaths in four years, India records highest toll between two censuses | Down To Earth

Source : Tigers Are Dying in Record Numbers in India

This is a real bad news. Local govts & wildlife authorities are not doing enough to safeguard the well being of these precious animals. India is one of those rare countries where you can find almost all the big cat species, bar Cheetah. We almost lost Asiatic lions for good before a huge effort was made to bring 'em back from extinction. Hope that's not going to be the case here...