Tiger trouble

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http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-ap-as-nepal-saving-tigers,0,2602387.story

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The world's tiger population is declining fast despite efforts to save them, and new strategies are urgently needed to keep the species from dying out, international wildlife experts said Tuesday.

"We are assembled here to save tigers that are at the verge of extinction," Nepal's secretary of forest and soil conservation, Yuvaraj Bhusal, told a conference of tiger experts from 20 countries, including the 13 where wild tigers are still found.

An estimated 3,500 to 4,000 tigers now roam the world's forests, down from the more than 100,000 estimated at the beginning of the 20th century. All the remaining tigers are in Asia.

Participants at the conference, which also includes the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund and other groups, plan to discuss strategies for tiger conservation, as well as challenges such as poaching, the trade of tiger parts and conflicts between tigers and local populations.

In a recent case, a Sumatran tiger died after being caught in a pig snare last week in Indonesia, the country's news agency, Antara, reported Monday. The report said the tiger died as it was being prepared for surgery Monday. Only about 250 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild.
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[marmar]

1. So sad......There is no more regal and beautiful an animal.....

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2. Totally agree. They are beautiful and perfect.

I don't want to live in a world without tigers.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Is that a Maxfield Parish as your avatar?

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5. Yes, it's one of his more famous, though it's not my favorite

I'm not sure which of his would be my favorite - it seems I run across new prints of his all the time, and I love every one of them. :) Okay, okay, you force me to choose - I like this one a lot:



The Pastry Cooks

[BrklynLiberal]

6. You are right ...It is difficult to pick a favoirte. Your avatar is called "Stars".

I am very lucky..there are nights that the sunsets outside my window are worthy of a Parrish.

http://www.maxfieldparrishonline.com/index.html

http://parrish.artpassions.net/

[NNadir]

7. I absolutely love Maxfield Parrish. As a child my ideas about feminine beauty were totally

defined by him.

The first time I saw the woman who would become my wife I thought to myself that she reminded me of a figure out of Parrish.

It's not why I married her, but it is what drove me to make sure I met her.

I still treasure a picture of her in which she assumed a Parrish kind of pose, this one in fact:



Ecstasy indeed.

But I did not mean to distract from this important thread about a tragic situation.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Instead of being the caretakers of this planet, mankind has become the assassin.

That applies to flora, fauna and everything else that we have here, and will lose..including our own existence.