Le retour du tigre en Europe: le blog d'Alain Sennepin
Les tigres et autres grands félins sauvages ont vécu en Europe pendant la période historique.Leur retour prochain est une nécessité politique et civilisationnelle.
DE JEUNES TIGRES BLANCS NES EN OCTOBRE DERNIERS VONT RECEVOIR DES NOMS TAMOULS - INDE DU SUD -). The Hindu, ce jour.
Déjà 3 tigres morts empoisonnés découverts ce mois ci en Assam, et un éléphant domestique abattu après qu'il ait tué six personnes (Hindustan Times, ce jour).
Forest guards in north-central Assam's Orang National Park recovered the carcass of an adult Royal Bengal tigress on Tuesday.
It was the third tiger believed to have been poisoned this month by villagers adjoining the 78.81 sq km park, 150 km northeast of Guwahati.
Divisional forest officer Sushil Kumar Daila said the carcass of the 10-year-old tigress was found near the Panchnoi No 2 anti-poaching camp on the eastern edge of the park. "Foul smell in the air led the forest guards to the tigress that died a few days ago," he added.
Jumbo shot after killing 6 in Arunachal
Forest guards in Arunachal Pradesh shot a domesticated male elephant after it trampled six people to death. Those killed were labourers engaged in road construction at Likabali in West Siang
district. "The elephant killed four people and damaged some houses on Monday. It killed two persons on Tuesday," said NN Jhasa, principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife), Arunachal
Pradesh.
Le bilan officiel pour l'année 2012 est très lourd (Times of india, hier).
NEW DELHI: The country lost 197 tigers in the past three years with 2012 recording the highest number of 88 deaths, including 59 due to poaching, the Rajya Sabha was today informed.
In a written reply, environment and forest minister Jayanthi Natarajan provided the figures related to tigers poached and deaths of big cats due to natural and other causes since 2010.
Un rapport de 32 pages, à la fois très instructif et très riche de documents photographiques, réalisé sous l'égide de l'Environmental Intelligence Agency et publié ce jour sur le site de l'Agence, met en lumière la stimulation du trafic tous azimuts de produits issus du tigre par les Chinois DEPUIS DEUX DECENNIES, en dépit de l'embargo international de 1993 officiellement respecté par ce pays.
http://www.eia-international.org/hidden-in-plain-sight-chinas-clandestine-tiger-trade
Voir aussi, ci-dessous, l'article de Mongabay.com, suivi des deux articles du Bangkok Post de ce jour : un commentaire général et la réponse chinoise.
Voir aussi l'article de ce jour de l'Hindustan Times sur la légalisation par la Chine de la vente de vin de tigre - conçu à partir de poudre d'os -, notamment (mais pas seulement) dans ses 200 "fermes" et celui du China Daily sur la légalisation du commerce des peaux et parties du corps du tigre.
Nous attendons un rapport d'une qualité comparable sur le phénomène aux USA... (voir article blog "Tigres américains : les années décisives" du 27 janvier).
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Chinese government creating secret demand for tiger trade alleges NGO (warning: graphic images)
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
February 26, 2013
Tiger bodies in freezer in Guilin Tiger Bear Farm. Photo by: Belinda Wright/WPSI.
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The number of tigers being captive bred in China for consumption exceed those surviving in the
wild—across 13 countries—by over a third, according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The report, Hidden in Plain Sight, alleges that while the Chinese government has been taking a tough stance on
tiger conservation abroad, at home it has been secretly creating demand for the internationally-banned trade. Few animals in the world have garnered as much conservation attention at the tiger
(Panthera tigirs), including an international summit in 2010 that raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the vanishing wild cats.
"The stark contradiction between China's international posture supporting efforts to save the wild tiger and its inward-facing domestic policies which stimulate demand and ultimately drive the
poaching of wild tigers represents one of the biggest cons ever perpetrated in the history of tiger conservation," says Debbie Banks, head of the EIA's Tiger Campaign.
In 1993, China banned the use of tiger bone, a popular item in traditional Chinese medicine. However, undercover investigations by EIA found that "tiger bones sourced from captive-bred tigers are
not being destroyed, leading to what is likely to be a massive stockpile and consumer assumptions that trade is legal or will soon be legal."
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 Traditional Chinese 'bone strengthening wine.' Note the tiger shaped bottle. Photo by: EIA. |
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 Distributing agent, Beilan, claims in this marketing power point presentation available online, that they supply Sanhong's 'Real Tiger Wine' to high ranking officials and private members clubs. Photo by: EIA. |
Bangkok Post 1. China is allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts despite signing up to a UN agreement which calls for such trade to be banned, a London-based environmental lobby group claimed on Tuesday.
Siberian tigers in a zoo in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, February 19, 2013. China is allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts despite signing up to a UN agreement which calls for such trade to be banned, a London-based environmental lobby group has claimed.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) says that its investigation has uncovered evidence of a legalised domestic trade in captive-bred tiger products -- sold as luxury home decor -- which it claims stimulates the poaching of wild cats.
The report also presented evidence that suggests traders are using 'secret' government notifications to legitimise the manufacture of 'tonic' wines made using captive-bred tiger bones, contravening a 1993 Chinese State Council order.
China is signed up to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which forbids international commercial trade in tiger parts and derivatives.
The accord also calls for domestic trade prohibitions, the consolidation and destruction of stockpiles of tiger parts and products and assurances that tigers are not bred for trade in their parts and derivatives.
Debbie Banks, Head of EIA's Tiger Campaign, said: "The stark contradiction between China's international posture supporting efforts to save the wild tiger and its inward-facing domestic policies which stimulate demand and ultimately drive the poaching of wild tigers represents one of the biggest cons ever perpetrated in the history of tiger conservation.
"Pro-tiger trade policies are championed by only a handful of officials in a couple of Government departments and it behoves China to vigorously address and terminate this intolerable disconnect between words and deeds which so undermines international efforts to save the tiger."
There are around 5,000 captive tigers in China, 1,500 more than in the wild, according to EIA figures.
"The international community should show support for this national movement calling for an end to policies which stimulate demand, and China must make good on its pledges to the international community and stop cynically stimulating and aiding a trade it has vowed to end," added Banks.
Bangkok Post 2.
China defended its record on protecting endangered species Tuesday after an environmental group accused it of allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts.
Two Siberian tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) at a zoo in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province last week. China defended its record on protecting endangered species Tuesday after an environmental group accused it of allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts.
The London-based NGO The Environmental Investigation Agency said in a report Tuesday that China had a legalised domestic trade in captive-bred tiger products which stimulated the poaching of wild cats.
In Beijing a foreign ministry spokeswoman insisted China had enacted laws and taken other steps to protect endangered species.
"The Chinese government attaches great importance to the protection of endangered wildlife, including tigers," Hua Chunying told a news conference.
The Ministry of Public Security, which is responsible for law enforcement, was not immediately available to comment on the report.
The EIA presented evidence that suggests traders are using "secret" government notifications to legitimise the manufacture of "tonic" wines made using captive-bred tiger bones, contravening a 1993 Chinese State Council order.
China is a signatory to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which forbids international commercial trade in tiger parts and derivatives.
The accord also calls for domestic trade prohibitions, the consolidation and destruction of stockpiles of tiger parts and products and assurances that tigers are not bred for trade in their parts and derivatives.
Debbie Banks, the head of EIA's Tiger Campaign, said: "The stark contradiction between China's international posture supporting efforts to save the wild tiger and its inward-facing domestic policies which stimulate demand and ultimately drive the poaching of wild tigers represents one of the biggest cons ever perpetrated in the history of tiger conservation.
"Pro-tiger trade policies are championed by only a handful of officials in a couple of government departments and it behooves China to vigorously address and terminate this intolerable disconnect between words and deeds which so undermines international efforts to save the tiger."
There are around 5,000 captive tigers in China, 1,500 more than in the wild, according to EIA figures.
"The international community should show support for this national movement calling for an end to policies which stimulate demand, and China must make good on its pledges to the international community and stop cynically stimulating and aiding a trade it has vowed to end," added Banks.
Hindustan Times : vin de tigre. China has officially allowed dose of tiger body parts - traditionally part of Chinese medicines - through an intoxicant - wine.
Selling of Chinese medicines derived from tiger bones has been banned there but not the "tiger tonic wine". The basic wine is made through traditional method but a tinge of tiger bone, before
bottling, has turned out to be its unique selling point. A bottle costs anything between $100 to $800 depending for how tiger bone was in contact with wine.
An investigation by London based non-governmental group, Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) released on Tuesday, has found that tiger bones are soaked in wine and then removed, thereby not leaving any trace of it in the wine. Therefore, the company selling the wine is not entitled to list the tiger body part as one of the ingredients.
This is the catch.
When it comes to selling, mostly at country's 200 tiger farms, where captive bred tiger are kept for tourists, the tiger link proves to the delicacy.
"A government notification allows use of the bones of the captive-bred tigers to justify the manufacture of 'tonic' wines so no action can be taken against manufacturers," said Debbie Banks, head of EIA Tiger Campaign.
China, however, insisted that it has enacted laws and taken other steps to protect the wild cat. PTI quoted Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying to say that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the protection of endangered wildlife, including tigers.
These tiger farms have around 5,000 tigers - highest population of captive bred tigers in the world - and a stockpile of body parts of many dead big-cats, which are regularly audited by the authorities. "These bones are kept back in the stockpile at the time of auditing," Banks said.
China's illegal big cat body part industry is considered biggest incentive for poachers, especially in tiger's biggest home in wild, India, to kill the endangered species for a price ranging between Rs. 10 to Rs. 15 lakh per animal.
Around 60 % of 89 tiger deaths reported from 41 tiger reserves in India in 2012 were poaching related. Many believe that actual poaching could be higher because many a time poachers don't leave trace of the hunted animal behind for the killing to be reported.
Banks believes that the Chinese government's policy for promoting use of tiger skins as home décor and wine was stimulating poaching of wild tigers and other big cats in South Asia. The civil society group wants the Chinese government to destroy the stockpile of tiger body parts to effectively check the illegal wildlife trade.
India and United Kingdom has been seeking a ban on tiger farms in China, which the Communist government has refused to accept saying there was no evidence to link tiger farms with increase in demand for big cat body parts.
China Daily. 26 february. China authorizes the sale of skins and parts of body of tigers raised in captivity in spite of an UN Resolution which it ratified and calling to forbid this type of
trade, declared on Tuesday the Agency of investigation for the environment ( AIE) based in London.
THE AIE asserted having discovered a legal business of products stemming from tigers bred in captivity, intended for the luxury decoration, which, according to her, is going to encourage the
poaching of wild big cats.
The association also noticed that traders use a parallel regulations of the government to legalize "toning" wines elaborated from ossement of tigers bred in captivity, in breach with a decree of
the Chinese Council of State of 1993.
China signed the international Convention on endangered species (CITIES)((ESTATES)) which forbids the international trade of products or its by-products, stemming from tigers.
Et pendant ce temps, un nouveau cas d'électrocution est répertorié en Inde (Hindustan Times, ce jour).
Yet another tiger was electrocuted and killed in the forests of Katni district during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. This is the fourth incident of tiger death by electrocution since November. In all the previous cases, death occurred because of electrocution. Three out of the four cases since November have taken place in Katni district. In all, 14 tigers have died in Madhya Pradesh since January, 2012. Besides, police in Seoni seized skins of two tigers in September, 2012.
Chief wildlife warden PK Shukla told HT that one person has been arrested in the matter but details would be available only on Tuesday as officials are still camping in the area.
Sources said that on Monday morning, villagers informed the forest department staff that a tiger was lying dead near Machmacha village in Barhi directed and co-produced by Ben Affleck I want to thank our friends in Iran living in terrible circumstances right now.
I want to thank my wife, who I don’t normally associate with Iran.” forest range of Katni district. Forest department staff reached the spot and found the dead tiger.
The electrocuted tiger was identified as male and its age was about four years.
The spot where the tiger was killed is about 40 kms from Tala - the headquarters of Bandhavgarh tiger reserve.
Sources said that poachers had laid a trap using electrical wires to kill wild animals. However, a tiger seemed to have walked into the trap and got killed. The poachers fled from the spot on seeing the dead tiger.
All parts of the tiger’s body that can be sold were found intact. A team of veterinarians reached the spot and conducted a post- mortem examination. It confirmed death because of electrocution.
Un article détaillé du WWF Russie ce jour sur le suivi à tous niveaux des 7 orphelins sauvés de la famine depuis le début de l'hiver (dernier cas, et l'un des plus dramatiques, hier).
http://www.wwf.ru/resources/news/article/10871
Hier, le Phoenix Fund établissait par ailleurs un bilan des "Sad Statistics" sur un an (depuis février 2012).
(From February 2012 through February 2013)
February 25th 2012 – a 6-month-old young tigress named Cinderella was found barely alive in Primorye. At the moment, she is kept at the rehabilitation centre and is being prepared for return back to the wild.
March 17th 2012 – a male tiger cub supposedly from the same litter with the tigress Cinderella was found extremely undernourished. Despite all attempts by veterinarians, the animal died.
April 10th 2012 – Primorsky police searched the home and office of a well-known local businessman, Evgeny Romanov, and found a large number of skins and derivatives of wild animals including 148 bear paws, two Asiatic black bear skins, three brown bear skins, two skins and five tails of Amur tiger, and five dead sea eagles.
April 17th 2012 - customs officers in Primorsky Province in Russia’s Far East have arrested a Chinese woman as she attempted to smuggle three Amur tiger paws across the border into China. After an investigation into the origin of the paws, it was found that they were from two different tigers.
April 21st 2012 – a male tiger dubbed Gryazny (Dirty) was found washed ashore dead.
August 24th 2012 - eight Amur tiger skins were seized from a resident of Arseniev town in Primorsky krai.
On December 2-3 and December 6, 2012 three orphaned tiger cubs were found in Yakovlevsky district of Primorye and transported to the rehabilitation centre near Alekseevka village.
On January 10-11, 2013 – a 6-month-old tiger cub was found with a traumatized paw near Svetlogorye village, and now the animal is kept at Utyos Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Khabarovsky krai.
January 15th 2013 - police officers discovered an Amur tiger skin illegally transported by train from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk. A train conductor was asked by a stranger to deliver a package to a man in Khabarovsk. During routine inspection, a tiger skin was found in a plastic bag. Experts believe that it was a 1.5-year-old tiger. There was a bullet hole on the skin that indicates that the animal supposedly was killed by poachers.
February 5th 2013 – Primorsky police arrested a women charged with illegal trade of the remains of a tiger cub - a skull, legs and rib cage.
February 14th 2013 – wildlife managers rescued a 6-month-old female tiger cub caught in a trap in Kavalerovsky district. The animal was extremely emaciated. His leg was seriously traumatized. The cub was transported to Arseniev town where it was urgently operated by veterinarians.
February 17th 2013 - Ussuriisky police officers and wildlife managers arrested two residents charged with killing a 4-year-old Amur tiger. The detained suspects had killed an Amur tiger and then tried to sell its skin, bones and cartilages.
February 21st 2013 - a 6-month-old male tiger cub was found in Kavalerovsky district of Primorye.
February 25th 2013 – a 6-month-old tiger cub was found extremely emaciated 60 km from Svetlogorye village, Pozharsky district of Primorye.
TOTAL: 8 tigers were rescued and 17-20 tigers were lost
Sergei Bereznuk, Director of the Phoenix Fund: "There are no words to express our indignation. For less than one year this is the eighth tiger cub taken from the wild due to its young
age and inexperience to survive on its own. We are almost 100% sure that their mothers died. And they were most probably killed by poachers. If we also add unprecedented seizures of tiger skins
and bones by law enforcement officers in Primorye and Khabarovsk, one can say that we have lost a few dozens of Amur tigers in just over 12 months. And the situation can become irreparable
soon because tigers gene pool has become depleted. Our State Duma spent too much time considering Kremlin chief of staff Sergey Ivanov’s initiative to turn capturing, trade and transportation of
rare and endangered species into a criminal offence. That is why poachers and wildlife traffickers are trying now to preserve as many tiger skins and bones as possible. While our deputies are
dealing with other problems they consider more important than the weakness of environmental laws, the Amur tiger population may become extinct.
For more than two years the Phoenix Fund and Wildlife Conservation Society have been running a project aimed at improving efficiency of anti-poaching efforts with the use of Management Information System (MIST) in four protected areas in Primorye. And during these years no tigers were killed there. It seems likely that tigers are mostly killed outside of the protected areas where Hunting Management Department, a state agency of Primorsky krai administration, must provide efficient protection of these endangered cats. Unfortunately, up to date we could not convince local officials in charge of nature conservation that it is necessary to take measures to improve anti-poaching management by that agency. We are ready to assist them with MIST introduction, consult and train rangers to work with this new useful tool, but high ambitions of local officials hinder the process. We hope that these dismal facts about the loss of tigers outside protected areas will make them think over the necessity to take urgent actions.
At the moment, we are collecting signatures on a petition to speed up the process of criminalizing the possession, transportation and trade of rare and endangered species. "
L'ETAT DU BENGALE OCCIDENTAL SOUHAITE LA CREATION D'UN REFUGE POUR TIGRES DANS LES SUNDARBANS (Times of India, ce jour).
KOLKATA: The state on Friday said the full-fledged work on the 100-acre plot at Sunderbans' Jharkhali for a tiger rescue centre would start soon as the
government has been able to draw some compensation package for the refugees, who are still occupying the plot. make it unnecessary to send them for treatment to the state's lone tiger rescue
centre at Khairbari in Jaldapara.
The land for the rescue centre is under the control of the refugee relief and rehabilitation department.
approved a 100-acre plot for setting up a tiger conservation and rescue centre at Jharkhali in the Sunderbans.
An ecotourism park on a 99-acre plot, to be
developed on the same island in the
mangroves, has also got a green signal of
the state cabinet. in Jharkhali will be set up on 99 acre plot.
It is currently seeking clearance from the Central Zoo Authority of India for the second tiger rescue centre
at Jharkhali in the Sunderbans and for that the state is seeking clearance of Central Zoos Authority. The centre will
treat injured tigers rescued from the Sunderbans and thus bring an end to the practice of sending tigers to Alipore zoo or Khairbari near Jaldapara for treatment. The state also has plans to
provide the refugees an alternate dwelling place.
Pendant que le corridor Sikhote - Alin / Shangbai Shan reçoit les éléments matériels et financiers concrets pour assurer une véritable fonctionnalité de circulation pour les tigres comme pour les grues du Japon (WWF Russie, ce jour) russes et indiens échangent sur les protocoles de zootechnie les plus adaptés pour les grands félins, tigres et léopards. Le Parc National Zov Tigra est représenté par Sergeï Marchenko (Economic times, hier).
NAGPUR: To learn experience on good practices in tiger conservation, a two-member team from Russia is visiting Pench and Kanha tiger reserves in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.
The team reached city on Tuesday and left for Pench in the afternoon. The team consists of Sergei Marchenko from Zov Tigra National Park and Evgenii Terentev from Zimliya Leopard, both in Primorsky Krai. The two senior officials will be accompanied by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) manager Prafulla Bhamburkar.
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Russia have already formed a subgroup on tiger and leopard conservation and signed a pact. The visit is part of the Tiger Watch Project of the Global Tiger Forum (GTF).
A meeting held on September 17-18, 2012 in Moscow had decided on capacity building of field officers and specialists, including exchange officers, to share experience on good practices in tiger conservation. It was agreed that both sides may allow cooperation between reputed institutes on both sides.
Both sides agreed for developing an inter-institutional cooperation in areas such as scientific tiger monitoring, anti-poaching, electronic surveillance, assessment of tigers and their habitat at landscape level, tiger/leopard reintroduction, radio collaring and related studies.
Bhamburkar said WTI is one of the sponsors along with International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). He said the tour is part of the exchange programme of GTF, which plays a key role in terms of organizing training programmes, exchanging information and promoting cooperation between tiger range countries for evolving a harmonized approach to ensure the future of wildcats in the world.
The officials will study site-specific management plans and programmes dealing with protection, poaching problem and corridors. The team will also visit villages to see eco-development models. They will learn patrolling methods and interact with field directors.
Similar problems:
* Russia is facing similar challenges as India on conservation front. Today, fewer than 500 Siberian tigers - the largest of the tiger subspecies - survive
* The dramatically lower number is reported because of the lack of genetic diversity among Siberian tigers
* Siberian tigers are relatively easy to breed in captivity. There are more Siberian tigers in zoos around the world than in the wild
* The body parts of Siberian tigers - particularly their fur and bones - are highly valued. Their bones are especially valued in China for medicinal purpose
* Most of the Siberian tigers remaining in the wild today live in the Far East of Russia. A few Siberian tigers also live in North Korea and China, bordering Russia
Derniers éléments (mois de février) sur des tigres en Province Maritime (source : Phoenix Fund, hier). Pour le cas du 14 février, le jeune tigre blessé a cherché l'aide des humains en
stratégie de dernier recours (voir le détail ci après, article du Moscow Times du 15 février). Ce n'est pas une première : une tigresse épuisée et incapable d'assurer le couvert de son petit s'en
était remise, il y a quelques années, aux bons soins d'un soldat russe en poste sur la frontière avec la Chine (info gracieusement transmise par Larissa Issaeïva).
February 5, 2013. A woman’s attempt to sell Amur tiger skeleton was thwarted when the buyers she met with turned out to be police officers. The remains of a tiger cub – a skull, legs and rib cage – were found in the boot of her car. Police investigators believe that the tiger derivatives could have been forwarded to China where tiger bones are traditionally used in medicine. A 32-year-old woman was questioned by investigators. She told that she got tiger parts from her two friends. According to police sources, the two suspected accomplices are the locals of Nikitovka village (Pozharsky district of Primorye) – a 60-year-old man and a 62-year-old fellow. They claimed that when riding horses in the woods they found a package with tiger bones. Police have started a criminal investigation into the killing of the endangered species. (Source: RIA-NOVOSTI)
February 14, 2013. Wildlife managers rescued a 6-month-old tiger cub caught in a trap in Kavalerovsky district. The animal was extremely emaciated. His leg was seriously traumatized. The cub was transported to Arseniev town where it was urgently operated by veterinarians. After the surgery, the animal was taken to the Utyos Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Khabarovsky krai. . (Source: RIA-NOVOSTI)
February 17, 2013. Ussuriisky police officers and wildlife managers arrested two residents charged with killing a tiger. The detained suspects had killed an Amur tiger and then tried to sell its skin, bones and cartilages. It was determined that the 4-year-old tiger was killed two weeks ago. A criminal proceeding on tiger poaching was initiated. (Source: ITAR-TASS)
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Photo : Ria Novosti
In the Russian Far East Primorye a weakened Amur tiger left the taiga with an illegal poachers trap on its paw and approached people to ask for help. Crying from pain, the predator strolled around one of the villages and did not wish to return to the woods. Local hunters called on the police and forest rangers for help. Using all possible efforts it was captured and the trap was removed. According to experts, the immature animal which is hardly a year old absolutely casually got caught in a trap meant for a smaller furred animal obviously having been thrilled by the bait. It was brought to the rehabilitation center in downtown of Usurisk where all injured wild animals from all over Primorye are sheltered. Veterinary doctors assured that the animal has no serious injuries and will recover soon. After that it will be returned to the taiga.
ACTUALISATION AU 22 FEVRIER . UN NOUVEL ORPHELIN PRIS EN CHARGE RIA NOVOSTI (22 - 02 - 2013).
VLADIVOSTOK, February 22 (RIA Novosti) – Environmentalists in the Primorye Territory in Russia’s Far East rescued an orphaned Amur tiger cub, the local administration said on Friday.
The six-month-old male cub was trying to hunt in the taiga, but was doomed due to his young age and weakness, Vladimir Vasilyev, the Primorye wildlife protection department chief, said.
“The tiger cub is very active and put up a fight,” Vasilyev said, adding that specialists tracked the animal for three days before they caught it.
The cub will be examined by veterinarians and then sent to a rehabilitation center, he said.
According to the Primorye administration, the cub could be a brother of a six-month-old tigress, which was rescued from a trap about ten days ago not far from the place where the cub was found.
The Amur tiger was put on the list of endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) . The population of the Amur tigers, one of six tiger subspecies found only in Russia’s Far East and in some areas of Northern China, currently numbers some 450 animals. Experts estimate that from 30 to 50 Amur tigers are killed by poachers and irresponsible hunters every year.
Suite des articles des 3, 6 et 12 décembre 2012 et du 10 janvier 2013.
Les spécialistes de terrain comme Viktor Yudin et des membres de l'Inspection tigre, ainsi que des représentants de l'Institut Severstsov démontrent que les orphelins peuvent réapprendre à vivre à l'état sauvage.
Source : Site Présidentiel, hier.
http://programmes.putin.kremlin.ru/en/tiger/news/22879
UNE TIGRESSE RETROUVEE MORTE A NAGARAHOLE DIMANCHE 17 FEVRIER (deuxième cas en quelques semaines sur le même secteur) A ETE EMPOISONNEE (The Hindu, ce jour). AU KARNATAKA, UN PLAN CHERCHE DESORMAIS A EMPECHER LA DESTRUCTION DES TIGRES PAR EMPOISONNEMENT (Times of India, hier). LES SAISIES DE PRODUITS ISSUS DE L'ANIMAL SONT EN FORTE HAUSSE AU NEPAL ET AU TIBET, EN LIEN DIRECT AVEC L'AUGMENTATION DU BRACONNAGE EN INDE DU NORD AU COURS DES DIX DERNIERES ANNEES (Hindustan Times, hier).
Selon le WWF, les tigres sauvages sur l'île de Sumatra auraient des effectifs 3 fois supérieurs aux estimations effectuées jusqu'à présent (600 contre 200). Environ 80 évolueraient dans le Parc National Burik Baritan Selatan. Bangkok Post, ce jour. C'est la deuxième réévaluation à la hausse des effectifs de tigres sauvages au niveau d'un pays en quelques mois, après celle du WCS pour l'Inde en Décembre 2012.
A group of Sumatran tigers appears to be flourishing at a national park in Indonesia, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.
A Sumatran tiger sits in its exhibit at a zoo in Jakarta in this file photo from 2008. The WWF says a group of 80 Sumatran tigers is flourishing in the wild in Sumatra. (Photo: EPA)
The Sumatran tiger is a critically endangered species which, although protected by law, is hunted for its skin and organs. it’s habitat is also under threat from deforestation to make way for oil palm and logging concessions.
The WWF claims a group of around 80 Sumatran tigers is living wild in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in southern Sumatra, despite the threat to them posed by human activity in the area.
“Dozens of tigers live well in the forests of South Sumatra and Lampung,” Job Charles, a project leader at WWF Indonesia, told Antaranews.com on Sunday.
Mr Charles believes the Sumatran tiger population is recovering in the area thanks to cooperation between conservationists and local communities in helping to preserve their habitat.
“The WWF along with other institutions and local communities are continuously preserving the habitat in order to promote the tigers’ breeding and increase the population,” he said.
Mr Charles added that WWF volunteers carried out regular patrols in the national park.
The WWF estimates that only 200 Sumatran tigers live in the wild on the island of Sumatra. However, the results of a survey of a group of conservation groups published last year on more than 250sq km of forest, covering 38 nature reserves, puts the number at a more optimistic 600.
Mr Charles is hopeful that the Sumatran tiger can survive in its natural habitat, with the help of local communities.
“The species will not [go] extinct if communities actively help in preserving their habitats and let the tigers breed optimally,” Mr Charles said.
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