With poaching getting rampant amidst the much claimed securities even in the conservation areas, tigers do not seem to be safe as demand for tiger-based remedies thrives.
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The biggest of the big cats heading towards 'catastrophic' extinction, can be saved only if huge international effort are made to prevent their numbers from continuous declining.
Shockingly and disappointingly, only about 5,000 tigers are left in the wild! They now occupy only seven per cent of what their historical range consisted. The territory which the tigers inhabited has declined by 41 per cent in only past 10 years!
According to a report, compiled by the World Wildlife Fund's Dr Eric Dinerstein and 15 co-authors, concludes,
While the tiger as a wild species will most likely not become extinct within the next half century, its current trajectory is catastrophic.If this trend continues, the wild populations will disappear from many more places, or dwindle to the point of ecological extinction.
Signaling a 'significant collapse' of the wild tigers' count, it is clearly evident that poaching is still poorly controlled.
If saving the tiger is to be taken seriously, and efforts are to be made effective, what is required -
* An international co-operation,
* Long-term strategies and
* The creation of large conservation areas.
The decade of data collected on wild tigers are published in the June issue of the journal BioScience.
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