Wildlife officials are hoping an international meeting in Hua Hin next week will provide the impetus for a major effort to save tigers from extinction throughout Asia.
Organised by the WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, the meeting will bring together environment ministers or representatives from 13 countries on Wednesday to discuss how to secure the future of tigers whose numbers have declined dramatically in recent decades.
Participants will come from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam. They will hold a two-day meeting with non-governmental organisations who will propose action plans.
The talks are part of a global process to determine high-level commitment and action to secure the future of tigers ahead of the Tiger Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, in September hosted by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and World Bank president Robert Zoellick.
WWF Thailand country director William Schaedla said wild tiger populations had dwindled from an estimated 100,000 a century ago to 20,000 globally in the 1980s, and are now estimated to be as low as 3,200 and falling.
Without concerted action, wild tigers could be extinct by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger, he said.
Peter Cutter, the WWF coordinator for the Kayah Karen Tenasserim Eco-region project, said an ambitious global goal was to double the number of wild tigers by 2022 to about 6,000.
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Tiger conservation meeting held in Hua Hin
Tiger conservation meeting held in Hua Hin
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Bit of a swooping statement I think. While they certainly do eat some rather strange foods out in the sticks, I have found that most Thais steer clear of almost all meet that doesn't come from a pig, chicken, fish, or cow. In fact my wife was even upset at the idea of me eating pigeon while in Scotland. Anyway, I can't see many Thais wanting to eat Tiger but perhaps you're confusing them with the Chinese.PET wrote:Why have it in Thailand?
I thought the way forward here was - ' If you can eat it kill it ??'
Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact
Thais certainly do have a fairly recent history of eating exotic game from the forests. I know that my in laws have eaten bear, monkey and loris in the past.Takiap wrote:Bit of a swooping statement I think. While they certainly do eat some rather strange foods out in the sticks, I have found that most Thais steer clear of almost all meet that doesn't come from a pig, chicken, fish, or cow. In fact my wife was even upset at the idea of me eating pigeon while in Scotland. Anyway, I can't see many Thais wanting to eat Tiger but perhaps you're confusing them with the Chinese.PET wrote:Why have it in Thailand?
I thought the way forward here was - ' If you can eat it kill it ??'
Habits seem to be changing though - my mother in law has a squirrel nest in one of her cocunut trees, the inhabitants of which would have been shot and eaten in the past. Now the Old Dear says "We don't hunt those anymore." They are still for sale in the local market though!