Does anyone care if the Tiger went extinct?

[neruda]

Nothing stirs me more than this majestic creature
I saw it several times back home and feel very sad that its nearing extinction...

 

[Jersey Domino]

Wait the Tiger is endangered? Damn I had no Idea!

That doesn't sit well with me at all.I really hope this beautiful creature can be saved.

 

[Soilwork]

Alas, most of the most beautiful creatures are endangered because collectors want their dead bodies or tusks or horns.

Disgusting.

 

[spreadeagle]

Evidently not, or we wouldn't be in the present situation. Man certainly is a murderous species - the only one that kills for pleasure (and calls it sport).

 

[BlueD]

omg, people talk about them too much that I think they are everywhere.... never even think that they are endanger....

 

[Tigryto]

 

[tonyboy]

Evidently not, or we wouldn't be in the present situation. Man certainly is a murderous species - the only one that kills for pleasure (and calls it sport).

There are several species of Tigers.... The Bengal tiger and the Siberian Tiger are just a couple.
Yeas you are right spreadeagle that in the past years men killed many tigers. But the present problem of the Tiger is not due to men killing them.... it is more that men and their families are trying to make a living and encrouching on the terrirtory of wild animals. It happens all over the world.... even in in the USA.

What you call 'killling for sport and pleasure' is not quite the same thing as folks in the USA hunting deer for food, or for those that like to fish or hunt ducks.
In the USA and other countries that have the ability to mangage their wildlife to the extent they can, trying to mangage the population growth in areas that wildlife have always lived.
In countries where there is little or no wildlife management, such as Africa, India, China.... many other parts of the world. It's tough for the folks living in those areas to try to provide for their families. Elephants are running through the fields of many African farms just to get food because they are being pushed out of their traditional foragaing areas..... it's not really due to hunting (though it does happen)....
Same thing with Tigers.... they need a large amount of land to hunt.... but the encroaching population needs to feed their families too.
The problem is mainly due to corrupt governments and horrible poverty in the lands that contain these animals.

 

[Jeimuzu]

Beautiful, majestic creatures.

However, it may arise that soon, the only safe place for them is in captivity.

The problem is, they are generally in places less protected. In England, a couple of rare birds get shot, and even the fourth in line to the throne gets questioned. There, nobody knows. While there are some wonderful people over there trying to save them, they are struggling to do more than slow the demise.

 

[-Ryan-]

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im a cat lover so im really sad about this...

 

[wanderer]

Alas, most of the most beautiful creatures are endangered because collectors want their dead bodies or tusks or horns.

Disgusting.

i think many people all over the world, including myself, would pay to watch teams track and kill poachers. and i think that it should be a serious international crime to own any product from an endangered animal, and this law would be without a grandfather clause.

 

[scottyz]

The tiger is a wonderful creature, but it has many friends who are also in danger:


http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/eldredge2.html

and

http://www.well.com/user/davidu/sixthextinction.html

http://www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html


People need to know that WE are causing an extinction event as surly as an asteroid did so many millions of years ago. We're just a little slower...

 

[rareboy]

Thank God that 4500 years ago, the big cats mutated into domestic cats. Otherwise we'd really be screwed.

I am as sorry that we will see the tiger go extinct as the polar bear as about 50% of our bird species etc. etc.

I wonder if the folks around the last ice age were sorry to see the last wooly mammoth?

 

[nitish]

I don't care for tigers.

 

[nitish]

Are people suggesting it should be kept alive for its aesthetic value.. ?

Apparently.

People don't realize that it's part of nature for animals to go extinct. We're killing them, sure, but are we suggesting we're not part of nature? We're the dominate species and we're killing off other species. Nature doesn't care, she made us this way. If nature sees fit that tigers go extinct because of people, who are we to argue? just sit back, relax, and let nature do its job. Animal nature that is. I would rather it go extinct that keep them in zoos for our amusement.

 

[nitish]

Nature is cruel.. sentiment doen't really help.. the world is apparently overpopulated but we won't allow people to die of illness because we care about suffering and we feel people should be allowed children.. its an ethical confusion that nature has foisted on us!

What are you talking about, it's not an ethical confusion. Every animal, every living thing wants to live. There is no confusion about this. We all want to live. And when you're a social creature (that's us btw) you want your society to survive as well because your survival is directly tied to how well they do. Suggesting that people help each other and persist on coming up with medicine because of sentimentality (I am not sure if that's what you're insinuating) is a huge misunderstanding of how things work.

 

[neruda]

Nitish has a really interesting set of points.

In fact back in India there is a raging debate that saving tigers is an elite idea - supported basically by gullible westerners and city folks in that country - and really meant only to grab land from the poor long-suffering peasant.

However in all fairness - its not the idea of extinction itself - but that human greed (poaching, sport hunting) pushing the speed with which this happened - thats drawing global attention.

 

[nitish]

As a carer I know I am doing it for emotional/empathetic reasons not for the sake of the dire species as a whole!

Of course you don't. Emotions are there for a reason, you know. Without emotions, mothers wouldn't care for their children. Emotions are necessary when you can't understand or think about things. Can you imagine if a mother Tiger didn't have emotions? She wouldn't go "Oh, i better raise this child that I don't care about because it's the good of my species."

In fact back in India there is a raging debate that saving tigers is an elite idea - supported basically by gullible westerners and city folks in that country - and really meant only to grab land from the poor long-suffering peasant.

You bet! I was watching 60 minutes yesterday, and they had a segment about elephants being slaughtered for their tusks. And one point, the Scott Pelley asked captured poachers why they did this. Guess what was their response! they were poor and needed the money. We really have no place to condemn the poor when all they're doing is satisfying our demand. It's all about save the rain forest when we're the ones who use the wood. Those evil third-worlders don't use tusks and tiger fur. Those things are reserved for high fashion. And who uses high fashion?

 

[nitish]

i think many people all over the world, including myself, would pay to watch teams track and kill poachers. and i think that it should be a serious international crime to own any product from an endangered animal, and this law would be without a grandfather clause.

I find this highly offensive. Those who do this are only doing it to satisfy the demand. I bet you know someone that has something made of Ivory. (if not yourself). This is the highest form of hypocrisy. Just like the war on drugs. Let the rich users get away with it and put the bottom of society in prison. You're despicable.

 

[NickCole]

Nature is cruel..

Nature isn't cruel.

Neither is it kind, nor fair.

It just is.

 

[ComNavFdgPk]

It is estimated that here are less than 6000 tigers living in the wild today. Out of the eight known species of tigers, three have become extinct in the last ten years. Three different conservancy organizations have successfully re-introduced captive-born tigers into the wild.

These are the largest of the "big cats." and are truly magnificent animals. Males grow up to 500 pounds. It would be a tragedy if in twenty years time, the only way to show the younger generation of humanity what this animal looked like was a picture in a book.