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| Glick, D. | |
| The Militia Earns Its Stripes | |
| 1993 Newsweek | |
Fifty Siberian tigers, between 15 and 25 percent of the total in the wild, were reportedly poached in Russia last year. (About 800 live in captivity.) Call it yet another unintended consequence of the breakup of the Soviet Union. Tigers were faring badly elsewhere in Asia, where populations of Bengal, Sumatran and other tigers had dropped from 50,000 in 1940 to fewer than 5,000 today. But under communism, the Siberian tiger flourished: closed borders and tight control over guns and contact with foreigners deterred traders, and conservation laws and a ban on hunting protected the felids. With the fall of the Soviet state, the Siberian woods-the taiga- have become the outback version of Moscow's Arbat. |
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