Sentences with phrase «world tiger populations»

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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's conservation foundation has awarded a $ 3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to help Nepal increase its tiger population.

DiCaprio said a statement that the world's population of 3,200 tigers was endangered by «habitat destruction and escalating illegal poaching.»

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's conservation foundation has awarded a $ 3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to help Nepal increase its tiger population.

Mirsky: Yeah, you make the point in the article that in some ways we might not even need to know what the exact population of the world's wild tigers are.

About half the world's tigers now live in populations of 25 or fewer cats, the researchers report in a study published October 29 in PLOS ONE.

Needless to say, there's a lot to discover and stretching 1,600 km along India's west coast, the Ghats is also home to tigers, leopards, the elusive black panther and the world's largest population of wild Asian elephants.

NEW DELHI, March, 28 2011 — The Indian Government today released new tiger population numbers for the first time since 2007, indicating that numbers have increased in the country that has half of the world's remaining wild tigers.

Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two countries that produce 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

If even Bjorn Lomborg sees the merits of the world spending $ 100 billion a year to address global warming, is there anyone who can find a downside to raising a grand total of $ 35 million a year (beyond money already committed by national governments) to protect 42 «source sites» — areas of tiger territory with populations that are sufficiently healthy to repopulate neighboring regions with suitable, but tiger-less, habitat?

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highest densities of the endangered...

In November 2010, the heads of government of the 13 tiger range countries signed the St Petersburg declaration promising to double the world's population of wild tigers by 2020.

They represent the largest unfragmented tiger population in the world.

«There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other — namely the ever - increasing size of the world's population.

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.»

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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