Roaring of Return
MARCH 28, 2011
By Suzanne Zimbler
The India’s conservationists have put hidden cameras in rainforests of India and calculated that currently there are only 1,706 tigers in India. About a century ago, there were 100,000 tigers in the rainforests of India. In 2002 there were 3,600 tigers left but in 2007 there were only 1,441. The population of tigers dropped so much mainly because of people coming to live in the tigers’ habitats because now tigers live on only 1/100 fraction of their land 100 years ago. Also, the tigers’ population dropped so much because of illegal hunting because poachers hunt for tigers because a traditional Chinese medicine can be made from them and sold for a very high price as ten thousand dollars. But in these 4 past years as the tigers’ population has increased, their habitat has shrunk so, the first goal of the tiger conservation should have been to not build as many buildings in the tiger territories and corridors by which tigers move from one rainforest to another. Last November leaders from 13 countries that are homes to wild tigers had a meeting in Russia, St. Petersburg and decided to make a goal to double the world’s tiger population by 2022. Now the world’s conservationists are doing everything to help increase the tigers’ population so and it seems that in the 2022 they might reach their goal.
I think this current event is very good thing for our society because finally in the last 4 years the population of tigers in India has increased by a whole 300. Tigers are definitely an endangered species and they could disappear from our Earth very easily which would be very sad. I chose this article is very interesting for me because I am really interested endangered species and the problems of ecology in the world. I think that we should care much more about our Earth and our endangered species because one day all the animals might disappear from Earth!!! If all the animals disappear that would be very bad for, us, people which is why every one of us should do something good for our Earth. I think this article talks about a good solution for this huge problem of the little population of tigers but I think we should do a lot more. I felt very sad when I read this article and I felt that I have to take action to help our world.
Did you ever wonder how scientists know exactly how many of each species are left in the wild? Also, I have seen many things on animal planet where you can adopt a tiger to help contribute to saving the species. Jaguar's are even more endangered.
ReplyDeleteAWWWWWW THATS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAD I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT TIGERS AND THERE POPULATION ONLY LIKE SEA TURTLES AND WHITE LIONS never tigers!!!! Thats really interesting though about how the tigers population has dropped sooo low since that long ago!!!!!!!!! Thats really cool i wonder how they will bring back the animal specie thats really sad though and i hope they find a way SOOOON or soon we wont have any more tigers !!!! It is good that russia and saint petersberg are doing something about it!! And it think that it is a great goal to reach to double the amount of tigers!!! I really hope that they acheive that goal because then we will have many more tigers for in the future!!!
ReplyDeleteGREAT WORK NADIA!
that is so sad that lots of animals including tigers are becoming extinct. basically most of the rare animals are endangered right now. that is a sad and a interesting topic. i like how u wrote ur own feelings. :) great job!
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