You can learn more
about tiger conservation and which countries are the worst offenders at Tigers in Crisis.
Not exact matches
Wildlife
Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth talks
about his July, 2016, Scientific American article on state - of - the - art techniques for tracking
tigers and estimating their populations and habitat health.
Provides interesting articles on
tiger conservation and
about wild animals of India.
Although
conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns
about the impact on
tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.
Rabinowitz makes two points which really make you sit up: 1)
conservation groups really need to be held accountable for their efforts at big cat
conservation, and 2) even with massively reduced habitat
tiger populations could be ten times higher than they are today.Rabinowitz says that the world's 2500 - 3000 wild
tigers live on just 5 - 7 % of their former range, but even that small
about of remaining habitat «could probably hold up to 30,000
tigers right now at reasonable densities.»
Coming from the University of Washington
Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out
tiger poop, which gets scooped up and studied by scientists in an effort to learn
about the genetic diversity of the dwindling
tiger population in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia.
The dogs were trained by University of Washington's Center for
Conservation Biology and were tasked with sniffing out
tiger scat, which was then studied by scientists to learn more
about the dwindling
tiger population in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia.
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tiger safari and
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