The king of the forest-the tiger salvation
ST PETERSBURG, Russia – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday agreed with other Asian nations to try to double the world’s wild tiger population by 2022 and save it from extinction.
Just 3,200 tigers now live in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago, and those that remain face a losing battle with poachers who supply traders in India and China with tiger parts for traditional medicines and purported aphrodisiacs.
Putin, whose country is one of 13 that are home to the world’s last wild tigers, hosted a “tiger summit” with Wen and representatives from other Asian countries, the highest level meeting ever held to try to save a single species.
“It is very important to save this wonderful, imperial creature — the tiger — for future generations,” Putin said, adding that its situation worldwide was approaching a catastrophe.
His spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a program to double the number of free-roaming tigers by 2022 was approved on Tuesday.
Initially, $350 million will be spent over the next five years, according to coordinators the World Bank and conservation organization WWF.
But implementation will be key and without tough measures to halt poaching and deforestation by the 13 nations, which also include India, Thailand and Indonesia, tigers could cease to exist in the wild by that time.
“Here is a species that is literally on the brink of extinction,” said WWF’s director general Jim Leape. “If we cannot succeed now, if current trends continue, by 2022 we will have only scattered remnants of the populations left.”
A series of measures were approved to double the wild tiger population by 2022, which include preserving tiger habitats by prohibiting building work in breeding places, a collaborative crackdown to eradicate poaching by using global police agency Interpol and the United Nations, and to continue seeking funds.
Putin, who was given a tiger cub for his 56th birthday, has tried to court Russia’s growing environmental movement by throwing his weight behind efforts to save the tiger, that roams across the vast forests of Russia’s Far East.
An ex-KGB spy who sports a macho image, Putin referred to Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi’s quote: “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
(The above article resource from http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-11/24/content_11598419.htm)
Let the king return, which is the call of human emotion. This appeal, as if urging hurry people to stop and rethink the nature come together for thousands of years the major proposition. In fact, from the early 80s of last century, China has a comprehensive hunting tigers. Also in 1993, a total ban on trade in tiger bones and tiger bone medicine. In addition, it has been launched a crack down on poaching tigers, the implementation of the breeding tigers released into the wild to explore action. Protect natural forests, returning farmland to forest, wildlife conservation and nature reserve construction and other major ecological construction projects, provide for the protection of the tiger better natural conditions.
Hand-in-hand, let’s make our world more beautiful and peaceful.
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