The Russian Prime Minister, Former President Putin, is a great and compassionate man. It is those character strengths that have brought Russia out of the dark and now he casts light on a dearly endangered species.
...Just 3,200 tigers now roam free, (click title to entry - thank you) down from 100,000 a century ago, and those that remain face a losing battle with poachers who supply traders in India and China with tiger parts for traditional medicines and purported aphrodisiacs.
"Here is a species that is literally on the brink of extinction," the director general of conservation organization WWF, Jim Leape, told the conference. "If we cannot succeed now, if current trends continue, by 2022 we will have only scattered remnants of the populations left."...
Vladimire Putin is not a 'flash in the pan' politician that enjoys power before purpose. He is a man centered on a legacy of compassion and correctness. I cannot thank him enough. He has, in the past, been known to go on expedition to tranquilize these Big Cats and track them with radio tansmission. He does make his statements lightly, but, with knowledge based in his own research.
As recent as last year he began the same practice with Polar Bears.
DiCaprio to donate $1 mln for tiger conservation (click here)
16:21 23/11/2010
Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio pledged to donate the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) $1 million for tiger conservation efforts, WWF said in a statement on Tuesday."DiCaprio today committed $1 million to World Wildlife Fund for urgent tiger conservation efforts through his Fund at the California Community Foundation," the statement, posted on the organization's website, reads.
DiCaprio, who shot to fame for his role in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic, is known for his participation in tiger conservation programs. Earlier this year, he joined WWF in its effort to raise $20 million through the Save Tigers Now campaign. As a WWF board member he recently visited tiger parks in Nepal and Bhutan...
My computer just warned me about the website RIA Novosti, but, it never warns me about Murdoch's media circus.
At any rate, THE TIGER.
It is the experience of scientists engaged in saving small populations of a species that 'severe inbreeding' can exist. When a population of species shrinks to such small numbers the individuals that survive 'may propagate lethal' traits currently undetectable until it is too late. Then the scientists and conservationists are left to wonder what occurred, ie: The Florida Panther among others.
Prime Minister Putin should not make the mistake of believing the remaining Tigers are perfect specimans. He needs to examine the genetic content of the population in the wild as well as those remaining in zoos and captivity as well as 'old museum specimans' as would be found in the New York "Museum of Natural History." Genetic analysis as well as habitat restoration and protection aided by poacher prosecution is all necessary.
I wish all the best of luck.
