A Michael Broad Blog
“Instead of expecting tigers to be cautious. Isn’t it logical that authorities must be cautious while planning roads and mitigation measures? – National Tiger ConVersation Authority (NTCA) In America, sometimes a stray cat crosses the freeway. Sometimes a kitten is somehow stuck in the middle of a freeway and rescued (great work by the …
Here are five reasons why the Tiger is endangered. They centre around loss of habitat, declining numbers, declining numbers of breeding adults and poaching for body parts all leading to an uncertain future in the wild.
In answering the question in the title it is important to refer to the date of this article because things are changing all the time and getting worse for Bengal tiger conservation. This article is quite short for the simple reason that it is based upon the succinct reasons as stated by the people …
India’s Project Tiger is unsuccessful. When Project Tiger was set up in April 1973. Indira Gandhi was interested in wildlife and had spoken about conservation some 4 years earlier in a speech to the IUCN General Assembly in Delhi in 1969. In 1973 there were an estimated 1,827 tigers in India. In 2008 the …
In a far-fetched proposal to help save the highly endangered tiger domestic cats might become surrogate mothers to tiger cubs (it would be a “gestational surrogacy” as I understand it). This is a proposal by a scientist, Dr Franklin West. Dr West is an expert in stem cell science. He proposes creating stem cells …
The Bangladeshi authorities have stepped up their fight against tiger poachers. They have to because the poachers, funded by big business, usually in China, are winning the battle. Not enough resources are put into protecting the Bengal tiger. Having stepped up their fight against the poachers, six suspected poachers have been shot dead in …
A little over a month ago I wrote an article about tiger numbers in India being 30% up. This was world-wide, good news. It gave hope that there was a chance that the Bengal tiger could escape extinction in the wild. Counting tigers (and any of the wild cat species) in the wild has …
Bengal tiger numbers are up in India! The authorities in India have recently reported a 30% rise in the number if tigers in their country over recent years. This brings hope for their survival where in the past there were severe doubts. India declares that there are 2,226 tigers in the wild, up from …
