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Conrad, K.
Wild Tiger needs New Blood, New Ideas
2011 IWMC World Conservation Trust (March-April 2011): 1-8
Another meeting to "Save the Tiger" has just taken place (March, 2011), this time in India. It follows up on the recovery plan which was approved at the Global Tiger Summit in last November. The GTS, hailed as a watershed event, was in reality little more than a gala fundraiser eagerly attended by the very NGO's who have overseen the tiger's demise. As the official website pointed out, at the close of the summit conservationists were "jubilant and cautiously optimistic" on wild tiger's future. Of course they were jubilant, because some $350 million had just been earmarked for their pockets. And of course they had to express optimism, because what fool would fund a project with pessimistic outcomes?
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