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In the year of Tiger WWF launches an appeal to save the big cats:
BANGKOK
Two weeks after the calendar year of the Tiger China, the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) has launched an appeal to prevent the extinction of the cat, whose population fell to 3,200 copies worldwide.
Illegal trafficking and the segmentation of the natural habitat has caused a sharp decline in the number of tigers living in freedom, which were 20,000 in the 90s and even 100,000 a century ago.
WWF's call comes on the eve of an important meeting of 13 Asian environment ministers, starting tomorrow, for three days, will discuss in the town of Hua Hin, Thailand, the measures for the conservation of endangered species of extinction.
"We must act now if you do not want to get to a point of "no return," said Nick Cox, program coordinator of WWF Tiger the Great Mekong.
The population of tigers in the wild in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia Myianmar (the area where it passes the Mekong, the largest river in south-east Asia) has dropped from 1,200 units in 1998 to 350 today, and could disappear completely by 2022.
The projections are defined catastrophic further depletion unless action is taken in a drastic way with conservation policies.
The blame for the rapid decline of populations of these animals are suspected pharmaceutical remedies made from body parts of tigers, still in great demand in Asia, e il commercio delle pelli, nonché una frammentazione e una diminuzione costante delle zone in cui vivono, a causa dello sfruttamento delle risorse boschive o agricole.
La valutazione delle popolazioni residue degli esemplari ammonterebbero a non più di 5000 individui. Questo allarmante dato arriva da una ricerca effettuata da Eric Dinerstein del WWF e da 15 coautori ed è servita per ottenere proiezioni sulle tendenze demografiche della specie, che potrebbero essere catastrofiche a meno che non si intervenga in modo drastico con politiche di conservazione. Alcune di queste hanno infatti registrato risultati positivi, afferma Dinerstein, come nel caso della riserva gestita dal Terai Arc Landscape Project, nella zona nord-occidentale regioni dell'India and in southern Nepal, as well as in the far east of Russia. Other reserves, however, still in the Indian sub-continent have failed to effectively protect the tigers.
Posted by Tiziana Paghini on Feb, 2-2009
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