March 12, 2013 - BBC News Science & Environment
Poison is emerging as the latest and most dangerous threat to the survival of the last remaining wild tigers in Thailand.
Poachers targeting tigers for their valuable skins and body parts are turning to insecticide as an easy way to kill the iconic animals.
In what's regarded as Thailand's most important tiger sanctuary, wildlife rangers report mounting evidence of gangs setting traps with fresh meat, laced with poison, as bait.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21618346
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VIDEO : BBC News -
ON PATROL WITH RANGERS PROTECTING TIGER IN THAILAND http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21764315
Jan 29, 1013 - Guardian
TIGERS UNDER THREAT FROM RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING MANGROVE FOREST - INDIA, BANGLADESH http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/29/sunderbans-disappearing-mangrove-india-bangladesh
July 13, 2013 Mongabay
INDIA: HOW TIGERS ARE FARING IN THEIR FINAL FRONTIER: From 40,000 to 2,000 http://news.mongabay.com/2013/in0715-sekar-tiger-status-india.html
July 15, 2013 The Telegraph
INDIA: ENDANGERED TIGERS 'KILLED OFF WITH PESTICIDES' BY POACHERS http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10180341/Indian-tigers-killed-off-with-pesticides.html
Feb 26, 2013 MongaBay
CHINESE GOVERNMENT CREATING SECRET DEMAND FOR TIGER TRADE ALLEGES NGO (warning: graphic images) http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0226-hance-tiger-trade-china.html
February 26, 2013 Mongabay
ASIATIC CHEETAHS ON THE ROAD TO EXTINCTION http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0226-santana-iranian-cheetahs.html#tY7VX85qC6MpcWFr.99
LIONS EXTINCT IN 25 AFRICAN COUNTRIES & POPULATIONS IN MORE TROUBLE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT http://sco.lt/63ur8T
AFRICAN SAVANNAH LOSES TWO-THRIDS OF ITS LIONS IN 50 YEARS http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3632407189/african-savannah-loses-two-thirds-of-its-lions-in-50-years
International Conservation Forum
VIDEO:
BRING TIGERS BACK FROM NEAR EXTINCTION:
Dr. Keith Martin Explains How
http://www.icforum.info/category/tigers/
WATCH
Nature PBS "SIBERIAN TIGER" | Full Episode
Ecologist Chris Morgan travels to far eastern Russia, in search of the Siberian tigers that hold rank in the frozen forests. The film features the work of Korean cameraman Sooyong Park, the first individual ever to film Siberian tigers in the wild. Park spent years in the forest tracking and filming the world’s biggest cat
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/siberian-tiger-quest/full-episode/7916/
Scientific American, January 08, 2014
EXTINCTION COUNTDOWN. NEW STUDY FINDS LIONS ARE NEARLY EXTINCT IN WEST AFRICA http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2014/01/08/lions-extinct-west-africa/
LIONS EXTINCT IN 25 AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND POPULATIONS IN MORE TROUBLE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT http://sco.lt/63ur8T
MORE ON ILLEGAL WILDLIFE POACHING
http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=POACHING
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