Dave Armstrong
- The tiger, Panthera tigris (2)
Following a tip-off from TRAFFIC India, WWF's local wildlife monitoring network, New Delhi police in 1993 seized a half tonne (500 kg) of tiger bones, representing the remains of between 40 and 50 tigers. In October 1995, the Indian government told the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) Asia Regional Meeting in Tokyo that it had seized another half tonne of tiger bone so far that year.
Dave Armstrong
- Continuation of The tiger, Panthera tigris, (1)
Tragically, the remaining five sub-species are at risk of meeting the same fate. The tiger faces an onslaught of poaching throughout its range. In the 1990s, hundreds of tigers have been killed to meet the demand for their bones and other parts, which are used for traditional medicines in China, Taiwan, and Korea, and exported to Chinese communities all over the world, including those in Australia, Europe, and the USA.
Dave Armstrong
- The tiger, Panthera tigris,
The tiger, Panthera tigris, one of the world's most magnificent and revered animals, faces possible extinction in the wild. Since the turn of the century, its habitat and numbers have been reduced by 95 percent. For a million years the "King of the Jungle" lorded over a territory stretching from eastern Turkey to the Russian Far East, its forest home extending northward to Siberia and southward into Bali. In this century alone, the Bali, Javan, and Caspian tigers have become extinct.
