Tigers: Worth More Dead than Alive.
People must decide whether they want to save wild tigers or consign them to memory. Although most people may imagine that tigers are thriving, all remaining subpopulations of tigers are in decline, and poaching, conflict, and competition with human populations have driven 3 of the 9 tiger subspecie...
| Publicado en: | World Watch Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 6 - 12 |
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World Watch Institute
July/August 2008
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