Sentences with phrase «last wild tiger»

Leaders of 13 tiger range states, supported by international donors and conservationists attending the summit, are being asked to commit to substantive measures to prevent the unthinkable: extinction of the world's last wild tiger populations.

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The result is that South Africa, where rhino are meant to be protected, lost 230 animals to poaching in seven months last year, and there are now fewer than 3500 wild tigers left worldwide.

Within that country's borders, in a park or residual wild area, are the last giant pandas or snow leopards, the last pockets of mountain gorillas or tigers, or the last migratory herd of a million wildebeests — something magnificent and acclaimed and sanctified.

Our major holidays in the last few years have been wildlife; the thrill of seeing a truly wild tiger still takes our breathe away, along with the myriad of other animals and exotic birds we see.

Here's more on «Wild Tigers on a Crowding Planet» and why it's a conservation bargain to invest in building the resilience of the last spots where tigers have a durable foothold.

Then I noticed that Leonardo DiCaprio had re-tweeted my recent suggestion that Apple, which has long named its Macintosh operating systems for the tiger and other wild cats, help conserve the world's last few dozen havens for wild tigers.

John Bryant, CEO of snack food giant Kellogg's, found himself in hot water last week on a quarterly earnings call when one investor took the company to task for its part in destroying vital Indonesian peatlands that store vast amounts of climate - polluting carbon, and rainforests home to the last 400 remaining wild Sumatran tigers in the world.