Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal also stated that the government would establish a National Tiger Conservation Authority as well as a Wildlife Crime Control Committee saying, «The solutions will be area specific, but the future of conservation will depend upon how we act now and how
we make tiger conservation and overall biodiversity much more valuable to the livelihoods of local communities.»
Not exact matches
And they
make some
conservation agencies set these unrealistic targets, saying that, «Okay, we had the
tiger summit with Mr. Putin presiding in 2010, so in ten years after that we should have twice the number of
tigers.»
Two years ago, during the International Forum for
Tiger Conservation in St. Petersburg, unattended by Panthera [and covered here], grand promises including a «new» $ 330 million dollar pledge for tiger conservation were made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for tige
Conservation in St. Petersburg, unattended by Panthera [and covered here], grand promises including a «new» $ 330 million dollar pledge for
tiger conservation were made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for tige
conservation were
made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for
tiger projects).
The EIA has written to the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao to urge action to match pledges
made on
tiger conservation.
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.»