Week Six: World Wildlife Fund!

I'm not sure how many people have heard about the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), but they're a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving endangered animals across the globe. While looking through their webpage, I appened to stumble apon their tiger page. this page doesn't focus specifically on Siberian Tiger, though it does have a paragraph and some facts about. it's also interesting to learn about the oter 5 species of tigers, all of which are endangered.

I suggest checking it out also because if you look on the right side of the screan, there's a tiger photo gallery, a video showing tigers, a map of where they are still living and where they used to live, and scientists oppinion about them!

check it out here: http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/finder/tigers/index.html?linklocation=topnavdropdownmenu

Week 5: Tabloids and Tigers

So go back in your mind to week one, when there was an article about the leaders of 13 major countries going to meet in Russia to discuss the tiger issue. Remember? Well after all that time, I found an article talking about what went down.

I didn't particularly like this article because it felt to much like I was reading a tabloid. By that I mean half of the article was talking about Leonardo DiCaprio and how brave he was to fly out to Russia during the storm and how he donated 1 million dollers to the cause.

While all this is great, the article barly mentioned the outcome of the meeting, such as how 200 people ended up coming, the only two mentioned being Leo DiCaprio and The Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin. However it did have interesting facts, such as how there used to only be about a dozen Siberian tigers left in Russia, and now there's more than 500.

It also mentions how countries, such as Russia, which have increased their tiger count, are planning to help countries, such as Iran and Kazakhstan, who haven't had tiger populations there for years. Although this may take some time- Many leaders of Far Eastern countries are expecting it to be around 2022-, many leader are hopeful that the tigers may be able to have their populations doubled and maybe even be taken off the endangered species list sometime in the near future.

Check out the Leo Dicaprio article that happens to mention tigers here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_saving_tigers

Video Clip

This is a video from Youtube about animal extinction. It doesn't really have to do with the blog, but there is a tiger in it!


try to find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdSLXQpF3qA&feature=featured

Week Four: PROGRESS!!!

Okay, so I found an intresting article from the Washinton Post in 2007 about Siberian Tiger breeding.

Apparently at Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Center in Harbin, China, there have been 84 siberian Tiger cubs born that they had been training to be released into the wild. At the time, there were also 13 more pregnant females, having researches there believe 20-30 new cubs would be born. The researchers had high hopes for the cubs because, of the remaining 400 siberian tigers(remember, this was in 2007), only 20 of them were in China.

Don't believe me? check out the article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/17/AR2007061700136.html

Week Three: What's the Difference?

Instead of doing this on week one, I've decided to do this for week three, and that's to tell what a Siberian Tiger actually is. I didn't really know what the difference between any other type of tiger and the siberian tiger till now. Well, because of week two's article, I knew they were the largest type of cat, but really, that's about it, so I think that this article fits right in.

In this article, It has everything about why siberian tigers are different, from tip to tail, no kidding. But that's just because that's how they get measured (it wouldn't feel right not to have a cheesy joke this week after last weeks title).

To learn more about siberian tigers' apperances (and also the rest of the tiger family's), then click here:
http://www.alexandgregory.com/siberian_tigers.html

Week Two: Child's Play

Well actually, being an endanger species isn't. Child's play that is. It's a pun....

Anyway, the reason I made a terrible joke is because my article for this week is from the National Geographic Explorer website, which is generally for kids, but I thought this article had good information.

The article starts off talking about Howard Quigley's first encounter with a siberian tiger. Quigley is a biologist who has worked with a number of different animals. The article then continues to talk about how siberian tigers are being tracked now, sending back information about what they're doing constantly.

This article is interesting to read because it has good information, such as how the tiger population got so low and what people are doing to help. It's also interesting because it talks about how presenting more jobs in the areas where tigers live could actually prevent poaching. There's also a list of facts at he end. They really have no purpose, but they're pretty interesting, like the fact that a tiger's stripes are like human finger prints and are unique to each individual.

Check out the article here: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0311/articles/mainarticle.html

Week One: Introduction

For my first ever post, I wanted to share an article I found on the New York Times website a few weeks ago.

This article is what gave me the idea for this blog and is very interesting. It not only talks about a meeting that many heads of state are attending this month, but also has many statistics about Siberian Tigers, such as how the tiger population has dropped by 40 percent in the last decade and what many leaders in Eastern Asia plan to do to reach their goal of increasing the tiger population.

To read this article click the following link: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/leaders-to-convene-on-tiger-rescue/?scp=1&sq=siberian%20tigers&st=cse