I wrote about the peril of the tiger a few posts ago; now I read that Indonesia is putting together a tiger recovery plan, and that it will be presented at a meeting in September in Russia which will discuss global tiger recovery.
That's a little bit of good news. The backdrop is wild species reductions just about everywhere, but the charismatic tiger probably still has a chance because of its charisma. If China could be convinced that tiger parts are no better in traditional herbal medicine than bull testicles (which probably have some testosterone anyway), then there'd be less poaching pressure, and the main problem would be habitat loss.
Bali meeting to draw up plan to double endangered tiger population
The meeting, to be held on the Indonesian resort island July 12-14, was expected to produce a draft Global Tiger Recovery Programme, said Darori, the Forestry Ministry's director general of forest protection and nature conservation.That document would then be discussed at a summit of global leaders on tiger conservation in Russia in September, he said.
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