10-21-2002, 12:19 PM
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Nactrafe:
Tigers are endangered. Their population has been thinned to the point that the gene pool is too small for the species to evolve. Left alone, with no predators or interference, it will still fall subject to the genetic drift that affects small populations sooner or later. Same with the Leopard.
Except for zoos and other managed areas where the species is cared for, Tigers will be gone from the face of the planet in 25 years. But, just the other day I saw a nightly news show where they found a dozen tigers hacked up and lying about in various shops on one street in Vietnam. Teeth were sold in one place, oils in a few others, etc etc.
So, the living trophies may live on as some perverse life-under-glass form that allows us to at least view the animal, but for all intents and purposes, it *is* extinct. Poor example, my friend.
So how come greenpeace or some other animal activist group like Peta don't go there and put a stop to it? Ooops they would be shot, heh guess it is better to bitch, whine and moan in western nations where it isn't likely you will die defending the animals...but where you will probably be inneffective too...
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