Tigers are beautiful creatures that existed since evolution of mankind approx of 1.5 million years ago.
Tigers are special kind of cats that show fearlessness and stalk the prey. They posess high intelligence and can live without water or food for days together.
They are quite shy and can hide if it senses any human trace close by like any other wild animals. They rarely attack humans and the incidents show that they attack when they think their life is endangered by humans.
They weigh around 300 pounds on average and tigers are territorial. There are variety of subspecies which includes Bengal tigers, Siberian, Indochinese, Malay & South Chinese tigers. Some of the species that already went extinct are
Capsian & Bali tigers.
The purpose of this blog is to create awarness to protect these beautiful creatures. We may never be in a position to show tigers to our future generations.
Concentration of Tigers can be found in India, Malaysia, Russia(almost extinct), China and Bangaladesh.
Unfortunately not much left today. Tigers are killed for Skin and Parts of tigers are used in medicine. Siberian Tigers have almost gone extinct and Poachers have helped to reduce the number of tigers from 30,000 in 1950-1960's to almost 3000 in the total world.
In India, though the government has taken so many precautions, the numbers have suffered severely due to extensive killing in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. Currently the head count balances to 1411 tigers (may be less than that) due to inaccurate measurement techniques like identifying peg marks.
WWF India plays a major role in spreading the awareness together with SaveOurtigers initiative.
The government believes if this rate continues there will be no tigers in the wild in approx 10-15 years time.
What can we do to save the tigers
1) Spread the awareness
2) Act as responsible tourists to make sure the natural habitat is maintained
3) Volunteer or Join the following organizations
http://www.wwfindia.org/about_wwf/.../tiger.../how_save_tiger/
http://www.saveourtigers.com/
http://www.savethetigerfund.org/
The tigers are getting less in population around the the world, the Govt have to take the initiatives to save the species. there's nothing in common man's had the forest department have to be vigil against the smugglers. or let the Govt permit to pet tigers.
ReplyDeleteWell said. Though the government can take most of the initiatives, as a reponsible citizen we can create awareness of protecting the tigers.
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