An interview with Belinda Wright of the Wildlife Protection Society of India
There is more concern for the tiger outside India
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/apr/27belinda.htm
Related article : End of the Road for the Indian Tiger
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/apr/25valmik.htm
Saturday 28 April 2007
Thursday 26 April 2007
Call to Action -1
Upload your picture and be a part of Save the Tiger Fund's Tiger Mosaic.
Once you've done that, take a moment and complete a letter to the Chinese government. Not sure what effect it will have, but what have we got to lose?
Saturday 21 April 2007
Tiger Meat sold at Chinese Zoo
This is what prompted us to take action.
A story on ITV news yesterday exposed a Chinese animal park which reared tigers and then put them on the menu. It was a deeply disturbing news item right down to the reaction of the angry owner who ended up throwing things at the camera when he was tracked down to a conference in Nepal.
Read the full story here.
A story on ITV news yesterday exposed a Chinese animal park which reared tigers and then put them on the menu. It was a deeply disturbing news item right down to the reaction of the angry owner who ended up throwing things at the camera when he was tracked down to a conference in Nepal.
Read the full story here.
Here today, Gone tomorrow
Less than a hundred years ago, there were an estimated 100,000 tigers in the wild. Today, numbers are down to less than 2500 mature breeding animals.
My first experience of being distressed at the losing battle was my recent trip to Sanjay Gandhi National Park (or Borivili National Park) in Mumbai. The big cats there were in a pitiful condition (more on them in a future post) and left both of us pretty upset after the 'safari' (where the cages were pelted with stones by the 'tour guide' to get the tigers and lions to come out for our benefit).
We've then become acutely aware of the situation with each passing day. It's as if our eyes (mine, certainly) have been forcibly opened wide and we can no longer pretend that it's not bothering us.
After months of debating on what we can do about the situation, this is then where we've begun. This blog is the first step in creating awareness about the desperate situation. We'll put up links to other groups and websites, ongoing projects, petitions and campaigns and post contact details in case you want to take up the cause as well.
My first experience of being distressed at the losing battle was my recent trip to Sanjay Gandhi National Park (or Borivili National Park) in Mumbai. The big cats there were in a pitiful condition (more on them in a future post) and left both of us pretty upset after the 'safari' (where the cages were pelted with stones by the 'tour guide' to get the tigers and lions to come out for our benefit).
We've then become acutely aware of the situation with each passing day. It's as if our eyes (mine, certainly) have been forcibly opened wide and we can no longer pretend that it's not bothering us.
After months of debating on what we can do about the situation, this is then where we've begun. This blog is the first step in creating awareness about the desperate situation. We'll put up links to other groups and websites, ongoing projects, petitions and campaigns and post contact details in case you want to take up the cause as well.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
