Demand for tiger parts in China poses the greatest threat to tigers in the wild, international experts said Monday. The illicit trade in the world's largest felines is run by organized crime outfits.
About 150 tigers are killed each year by poachers -- 5% of the world's wild tiger population,
He said tiger poaching brings $5 million in profits.
Tigers once roamed most of Eurasia from the Tigris River to Siberia and Indonesia. But in the past century, the number of countries that are home to tigers has dropped by nearly half, to 13 from 25, and three of the nine tiger subspecies have become extinct. The World Wide Fund for Nature and other experts say only about 3,200 tigers remain in the wild, a dramatic plunge from an estimated 100,000 a century ago.
Blacks in Africa learned how to live with natures exotic creatures like the lion, cheetah, leopard. This is why ancestry in Africa is more refined than that of China. They will destroy of their tigers. Such beautiful creatures. Why kill they that way when they balance the ecosystem of the wild. It is sad.
Posted By: jamal Abraham
Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 12:30AM
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