India has nearly half the world’s tigers

Russia is a strong tiger supporter, but India has nearly half of the endangered cats and promotes tiger tourism at a growing number of reserves.

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November 30th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Asia, big cat, China, endangered, endangered species, hunting, India, International, politics, population, predator, rescue, Russia, science, travel | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Can even Putin stop poaching for fun and tiger body parts?

Tiger summit yields $300 million in pledges to double the population by 2022.

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November 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Asia, big cat, China, endangered, endangered species, hunting, India, International, politics, population, Russia, science | Comments are closed

Looking for Vegan Civet Coffee?

Fake or vegan civet coffee would be great news for civets. Wild civets used to process the coffee for farmers, but demand is too great for this serendipitous civet coffee. Civets are getting rarer in the wild and more common on grim civet farms.

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October 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Asia, farm, mammal, money, population, science, weird | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)