Fund Launched To Save Tigers From Extinction

Fri., Jan. 23, 1998

Associated Press

With the Chinese Year of the Tiger beginning this month, the World Wide Fund for Nature launched a $1 million appeal Thursday to help save the big cat from extinction.

“The situation for tigers is becoming increasingly precarious,” spokesman Jean-Pierre d’Huart said.

The number of tigers in the world has declined by 95 percent during the last 100 years, the group said in a report.

The main threats to tigers are habitat destruction, poaching and the illegal trade in tiger parts for use in traditional Chinese medicine.

Three species of tigers, the Bali, Caspian and Javan, are already extinct and the South China species risks the same fate with only 20 or 30 left in the wild, it said.

Overall, there are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers left in the wild, mainly in national parks and protected areas. About half the world’s tigers live in India.

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