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Big
cats
Lions, tigers, leopards
conservation issues, status, threats, efforts, discussions
see also wildlife trade, global
biodiversity loss, forests
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5 rare Asiatic lions found dead in India
By R.K. Misra, Associated Press Yahoo News 20 Oct 07
Rare Chinese tiger spotted for first
time in decades
Yahoo News 12 Oct 07
China Growth Seen Raising Threat to Tigers
Story by Alister Doyle and Gerard Wynn PlanetArk 3 Oct 07
Tigers Rediscovered in Indian Rainforest
Story by Krittivas Mukherjee PlanetArk 12 Sep 07
Police Find Two Tigers in Hanoi Woman's
Fridge
PlanetArk 6 Sep 07
Indonesia Seeks Plan to Save Rare Tigers,
Elephants
PlanetArk 30 Aug 07
China says ban on tiger trade 'not forever'
Yahoo News 19 Jun 07
UN Meeting Rebukes China Over Tiger Trade
Story by Alister Doyle PlanetArk 14 Jun 07
Claws out after farm served tiger meat
Straits Times 14 Jun 07
World's tigers on "catastrophic" path
to extinction
By Nita Bhalla Yahoo News 8 Jun 07
Taste for tiger A plan to farm tigers
for their body parts is troubling wildlife groups.
Stories by Tan Cheng The Star 29 May 07
India Considers China Move to Lift Tiger
Trade Ban
PlanetArk 29 May 07
India Tiger Numbers Far Lower Than Thought
- Experts
Story by Nita Bhalla PlanetArk 24 May 07
India Plans World's First Tiger Move
After Debacle
Story by Nita Bhalla PlanetArk 8 May 07
17 rare Asiatic lions perish in India
Yahoo News 30 Apr 07
Hunters kill one of last Amur Leopards
Yahoo News 23 Apr 07
WWF urges Russia to set up reserve for
endangered Amur leopard Yahoo News 18 Apr 07
Iron Traps, Pits Haunt India's Rare Asiatic
Lions
Story by Rupam Jain Nair PlanetArk 17 Apr 07
India steps up protection for rare Asiatic
lions
By Rupam Jain Nair Yahoo News 7 Apr 07
Vietnam PM approves tiger farms
Yahoo News 6 Apr 07
Tigers in the eye of Vietnam conservation
storm
by Frank Zeller Yahoo News 29 Mar 07
Three more rare lions killed by poachers
in India
Yahoo News 30 Mar 07
China Breeders Urge Lifting of Tiger
Parts Ban
PlanetArk 30 Mar 07
Wildlife Groups Urge China to Keep Tiger
Trade Ban
PlanetArk 13 Mar 07
Drowning Deaths of Indian Lions Points
to Apathy
PlanetArk 8 Mar 07
New Great Cat Species Identified in Borneo
- WWF
Story by Robert Evans PlanetArk 15 Mar 07
Vietnam Orders Measures on Private Tiger
Breeding
PlanetArk 14 Mar 07
Cameras key to saving endangered tigers
By Jerry Harmer Yahoo News 3 Mar 07
Coffee Growing Risks Indonesia Tigers
- WWF
PlanetArk 17 Jan 07
Saving the Malayan tiger
by Tan Cheng Li The Star 2 Jan 07
Fast Breeding Keeps Tiger Numbers Steady
Story by Ed Stoddard PlanetArk 15 Dec 06
Getting wild tigers to leave farm animals
alone
Story and photo by Lee Yuk Peng The Star 5 Oct 06
Conservationists blast India, China for
rampant tiger trade
Yahoo News 27 Sep 06
Tiger Play at Private Zoo in Vietnam
PlanetArk 26 Sep 06
China to Release Rare Tigers to Shrinking
Forests
PlanetArk 26 Sep 06
Sumatra tiger's habitat reported to have
drastically shrunk
Antara 21 Aug 06
Killing pumas doesn't lessen attacks
on man
By Adam Tanner Yahoo News 8 Aug 06
Tiger Habitat Shrinks By 40 Percent in
10 Years
Story by Deborah Zabarenko PlanetArk 21 Jul 06
Tigers get a business plan
Wildlife Conservation Society EurekAlert 6 Jul 06
Bangladesh to desilt rivers to help
conserve tigers
AFP Yahoo News 5 Jul 06
Indian Tidal Power Plant to Threaten
Tigers - Critics
Story by Bappa Majumdar PlanetArk 3 Jul 06
India to Give Army Powers to Protect
Wildlife
Story by Nita Bhalla PlanetArk 20 Jun 06
India's Tigers in Losing Battle
Against Poachers
Story by Krittivas Mukherjee PlanetArk 5 Jun 06
Lion Killings Spur Fears of Regional
Extinction in Kenya
John Roach National Geographic 22 May 06
India Eyes Chinese Help to Protect Tigers
Story by Krittivas Mukherjee PlanetArk 18 May 06
Amid Extinctions, Parrots, Panthers Get
Costly Aid
Story by Alister Doyle PlanetArk 10 May 06
Lions and People Must Learn to Get Along,
Experts
Say Leon Marshall National Geographic 3 May 06
Amur tiger cubs born in southeast Siberia
for first time over 100 years WWF 10 Apr 06
Dalai Lama Offers Lifeline to Indian
Tiger
Story by Simon Denyer PlanetArk 7 Mar 06
Bangladesh tags second Royal Bengal tiger
with radio collar
Beth Duff-Brown Associated Press Channel NewsAsia 5 Mar 06
India Searches for Ways to Head off Extinction
of its Endangered Tigers By Gavin Rabinowitz ENN 15 Feb 06
India turns to spy technology to save
tigers
By Justin Huggler The Independent 15 Jan 06
Saving the Pride of Africa: African Governments
Pull Together to Conserve their Lions IUCN 13 Jan 06
India Begins Count of Threatened
Tigers
Story by Krittivas Mukherjee PlanetArk 6 Jan 06
India to Count Tigers with Computers
Story by Krittivas Mukherjee PlanetArk 21 Dec 05
Indian government relooks tiger conservation
programme
By Vaibhav Varma India Correspondent
Channel NewsAsia 10 Dec 05
The Malaysian Conservation Alliance for
Tigers: MYCAT
contributed by Loretta Ann Soosayraj WildAsia website 7 Dec 05
Endangered Siberian tiger, other rare
species, at risk from Chinese chemical spill Written by Burt Herman
PlanetSave 5 Dec 05
Re-opening of tiger trade in China spells
disaster, says WWF and TRAFFIC WWF website 26 Sep 05
Massive Tiger bone seizure in Taiwan
highlights continued poaching threat TRAFFIC website, 8 Aug 05
Indian Task Force Says Tigers under Siege
PlanetArk website, 8 Aug 05
Extinction looms for wild tigers
in Asia
By Nirmal Ghosh The Straits Times, 6 Jul 05
links
More about the trade in tigers on the TRAFFIC
website tigersfile with links to how
you can help
Cat Action Treasury www.felidae.org
Cat Specialist Group http://lynx.uio.no/catfolk/
Great Cats www.nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GreatCats/tigerfacts.cfm
The Tiger Foundation www.tigers.ca/
Tiger Information Centre www.savethetigerfund.org
21st Century Tiger www.21stcenturytiger.org/
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