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
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
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
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
Saturday, December 11, 2010
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
try to find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdSLXQpF3qA&feature=featured
Sunday, December 5, 2010
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
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
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