Article Archive for 31 January 2007

Illegal Wildlife Trade, Threatened Animals: Tigers
By solonavi
Posted in Endangered & Extinction on 31 January 2007
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Conservation International Escalating illegal trade in tiger body parts and rampant destruction of tiger habitat have put the fearsome cat at serious risk of extinction. Among the world’s highly threatened animals, only an estimated 5,000 wild tigers survive today, down from 100,000 at the turn of the 20th century. India is home to half of [...]