Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, Better hurry on that tiger "shooting" safari. This story was in today's New York Times. "Could this Chinese Year of the Tiger be the last one with actual tigers still afoot in the world?s wild? - Tiger Farms in China Feed Thirst for Parts<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/world/asia/13tiger.html?ref=weekinreview>(February 13, 2010) The numbers are not encouraging. Experts believe the global wild tiger population has fallen to below 3,000 ? less than 3 percent of what it was just 100 years ago. Today, their range has been reduced to small patches, isolating many of the animals in genetically impoverished groups of dozens of cats or fewer. In India, some famous tiger reserves have no tigers left at all." For full details see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07marsh.html?ref=global-home Larry Z