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JJHH

11-21-2010, 02:28 PM

By IRINA TITOVA, Associated Press Irina Titova, Associated Press – Sun Nov 21, 10:53 am ET

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Wild tigers could become extinct in 12 years if countries where they still roam fail to take quick action to protect their habitats and step up the fight against poaching, global wildlife experts told a "tiger summit" Sunday.

The World Wildlife Fund and other experts say only about 3,200 tigers remain in the wild, a dramatic plunge from an estimated 100,000 a century ago. James Leape, director general of the World Wildlife Fund, told the meeting in St. Petersburg that if the proper protective measures aren't taken, tigers may disappear by 2022, the next Chinese calendar year of the tiger.

Their habitat is being destroyed by forest cutting and construction, and they are a valuable trophy for poachers who want their skins and body parts prized in Chinese traditional medicine.

The summit approved a wide-ranging program with the goal of doubling the world's tiger population in the wild by 2022 backed by governments of the 13 countries that still have tiger populations: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and Russia.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_saving_tigers

JohnnyWalker

11-21-2010, 02:31 PM

good, more room to build malls, oil refineries, and such. I never liked Tigers anyways

JJHH

11-21-2010, 02:46 PM

good, more room to build malls, oil refineries, and such. I never liked Tigers anyways

Do change your avatar into a nice mall or oil refinery,

PeterG

11-21-2010, 02:52 PM

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5194437043_c49f466fef_o.jpg
Monk washing a tiger at a tiger sanctuary in Thailand. Took this this in march.

JJHH

11-21-2010, 03:11 PM

Great photo Peter, I have myself a new desktop image. Thanks for posting!

PeterG

11-21-2010, 03:24 PM

Great photo Peter, I have myself a new desktop image. Thanks for posting!

I'm flattered! :-)

eechoss

11-21-2010, 04:57 PM

Beautiful animals, I hope that we can stop them from disappearing.

SuperBootie

11-21-2010, 05:02 PM

good, more room to build malls, oil refineries, and such. I never liked Tigers anyways

I don't like **** who hunt endangered species, does that allow me to hunt you? Guess what I have .. kills want to be the next? Prick

Lets put a £500 bounty on the head of Asian Poachers! Bring me the head...

2495

11-21-2010, 05:02 PM

Got to educate the Chinese first.

If they can be forced to change their behaviour, tiger potions will cease to exist and the need to poach them will stop over night. However, getting the Chinese to stop is not going to be an easy task...

JohnnyWalker

11-21-2010, 05:07 PM

I don't like **** does that allow me to hunt you? Guess what I have .. kills want to be the next? Prick

I don't like douche bag containers, does that allow me not to be sarcastic with my answers?

Astaran

11-21-2010, 05:15 PM

gaijinsamurai

11-21-2010, 05:15 PM

2495

11-21-2010, 05:18 PM

Good luck with that.......

I hear ya on that one. Typical Chinese 'don't give a fvck because I got fvcky fvcky potion' mentality. Same with rhino horn and shark fins..

SuperBootie

11-21-2010, 05:20 PM

[QUOTE=JohnnyWalker;5311269]I don't like douche bag containers, does that allow me not to be sarcastic with my answers?[/QUO

Typical Sad Lost unemployable SA kinda semi competent prospective contractors.....you have about a 2 out of 10 as far as every PMC I know but hey you are cheap so ....

JohnnyWalker

11-21-2010, 05:21 PM

Typical Sad Lost unemployable SA kinda semi competent prospective contractors.....you have about a 2 out of 10 as far as every PMC I know but hey you are cheap so ....

Bootie, get over it.

2495

11-21-2010, 05:23 PM

MP.net anti poacher formation?

Paid per scalp like the old wild west? that would be win..

SuperBootie

11-21-2010, 05:33 PM

Bootie, get over it.

Code? PM.............

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

11-21-2010, 07:29 PM

1234567890

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zKE41IdH2g&feature=related

seraosha

11-21-2010, 08:51 PM

MP.net anti poacher formation?

Paid per scalp like the old wild west? that would be win..

Hey now! Where can I cash some in?

SBL

11-21-2010, 08:52 PM

Get your rugs while you can.

Reaper171

11-21-2010, 08:58 PM

Get your rugs while you can.

Damn beat me to it lol

Robert.V

11-21-2010, 09:03 PM

Itamajus

11-22-2010, 02:37 PM

Wow 3200, this is ****ing tragic. Not willing to sound like a vegan fag, but there are even more endangered animal species.

Vehemence

11-22-2010, 03:19 PM

Got to educate the Chinese first.

.........RIP tiger.

deathil93

11-22-2010, 03:55 PM

We have only ONE Tiger here in Israel, roaming the Negev with a tracking device, IIRC they wanted (?) to release a female Tiger there so they'll breed.

Ment0s

11-22-2010, 09:56 PM

These assholes in China are no better than the savages in Africa who believe that having *** with a virgin will cure AIDS. Sad.

I hope that the reintroduction programs work out.

SweNationalGuard

11-23-2010, 06:55 AM

Tigers are absolutely beautiful and majestic animals. Too bad these godless Commies can't be stopped and will extinct them. I just hope some eggheads will collect enough DNA samples to clone Tigers or increase their population with artificial insemination before it's too late.

Well, it's the tigers in the wild that are on the verge of being extinct, Tigers as a species are not, there are more tigers in zoo's and in private hands then there are in the wild...by far.

Sad none the less, majestic animals indeed, visited the tiger santctuary in Thailand a month ago and that was awesome, however i pussied out meeting the adult tigers, damn, they are huge, so I went to play with the slightly smaller ones instead.

Vehemence

11-23-2010, 08:10 AM

I hope that the reintroduction programs work out.

Only if they take what's left of them and relocate them to a continent much more accustomed to civility (Aka Europe...and sometimes North America).

Astaran

11-23-2010, 08:16 AM

Only if they take what's left of them and relocate them to a continent much more accustomed to civility (Aka Europe...and sometimes North America).

Nah, (central) Europe sucks. In Germany they shot a brown bear a few years ago, just because he walked around in Bavaria. I can hardly imagine the hysteria if some Tigers would be relocated to Europe. The results would look like Cloverfield and Godzilla p-)

Vehemence

11-23-2010, 08:23 AM

Did you just compare Germany to Asia?

Astaran

11-23-2010, 08:30 AM

Did you just compare Germany to Asia?

Who? Me? Lol, hell no.

I just replied to the suggestion to relocate Tigers to Europe. Since most Germans start to wet their pants when a spider starts to "charge" them, they would die of panic attacks if they have to face actual dangerous animals ;)

Vehemence

11-23-2010, 08:33 AM

Now you're comparing the actions of Germans acting in self defense to Asians killing in bulk for profit.

Astaran

11-23-2010, 08:35 AM

Now you're comparing the actions of Germans acting in self defense to Asians killing in bulk for profit.

Do you work by any chance as a lawyer?

Vehemence

11-23-2010, 08:45 AM

No, I'm a dance instructor.

Astaran

11-23-2010, 08:51 AM

Ah, I see. Pole dance? ;)

RSone

11-23-2010, 10:05 AM

Well, it's the tigers in the wild that are on the verge of being extinct, Tigers as a species are not, there are more tigers in zoo's and in private hands then there are in the wild...by far.

Sad none the less, majestic animals indeed, visited the tiger santctuary in Thailand a month ago and that was awesome, however i pussied out meeting the adult tigers, damn, they are huge, so I went to play with the slightly smaller ones instead.

The dissapearance of an apex predator is going to have severe consequences for the local ecosystems. Extinction wouldn't only affect tigers.

JJHH

12-03-2010, 04:39 AM

Vietnam's Planned Sale of Tiger Paste Protested

Officials in Vietnam's northern Thanh Hoa province agreed last month to organize a public auction of 6 pounds (2.8 kilograms) of tiger paste seized from traffickers. An auction date has not been set.

Vietnam bans the hunting or trade of wild animals and their products, but the Ministry of Agriculture has issued a directive allowing its use in making medicines. In Vietnam, tiger bones are used to make expensive traditional medicines purported to cure many illnesses.

Two pounds (1 kilogram) of tiger paste could be sold for $10,000 on the black market.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/12/03/world/asia/AP-AS-Vietnam-Tigers.html?ref=world

nullterm

12-03-2010, 04:49 AM

Got to educate the Chinese first.

Only if you figure out how to patent making a tiger and have them reverse engineer it. Then the market will be flooded and everyone will be able to pick one up at Walmart for $20.

Warlord

12-03-2010, 04:55 AM

Send them here.

http://www.calauitisland.com/

RSone

12-03-2010, 07:43 AM

Vietnam's Planned Sale of Tiger Paste Protested

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Yeah.... Makes sense, NOT. IF the use of the end product or refined resources is legal, demand will stay up.

VIETNAM,FVCK YEAH!

Juszi

12-03-2010, 10:25 AM

Nah, (central) Europe sucks. In Germany they shot a brown bear a few years ago, just because he walked around in Bavaria. I can hardly imagine the hysteria if some Tigers would be relocated to Europe. The results would look like Cloverfield and Godzilla p-)

A couple of years ago a tiger managed to escape from a circus in Warsaw. A veterinatian was called in to hit it with a tranquillizer dart; when the animal attacked the vet, police shot him instead of the tiger.
So yeah, Poland might be a good place for Tigers, but not for their caretakers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcB9xH1hh8