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| Damania, R.; Seidensticker, J.; Whitten, T.; Sethi, G.; MacKinnon, K.; Kiss, A.; Kushlin, A. | |
| A future for wild tigers | |
| 2008 Full Book | |
Within a century wild tiger numbers have plummeted from over 100,000 to below 4,000 animals. The suite of pressures on tigers includes depletion of their prey, degradation of habitats, fragmentation and conversion of habitats, and poaching of tigers. It is tiger poaching, however, that has emerged as the most urgent and immediate threat to tigers in the past five years. The challenges of conserving tigers are daunting. With the multiple pressures of poaching, prey depletion, forest degradation, and habitat loss, tigers have become an enforcement-dependent species. To save the tiger, it must be turned from an economic liability into a living wild asset. The good news is that there still remain blocks of habitat that could sustain wild tigers. Most tiger-range countries have introduced legislation aimed at protecting tigers and other biodiversity, but there is an enforcement deficit. There is an accompanying resource deficit. The inconvenient truth is that under current management systems, wild tigers are silently slipping away. The immediate and most urgent priority is to improve protection on the ground to address the poaching crisis. There is no "one-size-fits-all" solution to tiger conservation. |
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