Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WC and U.S. Geological Survey (USG conducted a nine-year study of tigers in Nagarahole, one of India’s best-run national parks. The research team used remote cameras to identify individual tigers and then accurately estimate population trends in the park. They concluded that while 23 percent of the park’s tigers either move away or die each year from poaching and natural causes, the cats’ high reproductive rates and the abundance of prey have held the population size steady.

“This study shows that effectively protecting reserves to maintain high prey densities is a key pillar in an overall strategy for the conservation of tigers,” said WCS researcher Dr. Ullas Karanth, the lead author.

Unfortunately, in other parts of the tiger’s range, relentless hunting of the big cats and their prey has taken a serious toll on the population. Another recent WCS study revealed that tiger numbers in a protected area along the Laos-Vietnam border are severely depressed from commercial poaching and prey depletion, which may increase competition between large carnivores.

“The good news is that given the chance, tigers can replenish their numbers; the bad news is that they are not being given that chance in many parts of their range

Save Tiger

Poachers are continuing to exterminate the world's remaining Tigers. New demand across Southeast Asia for the skins, teeth and claws of tigers is endangering much of the great cats, particularly the Sumatran tiger. Currently, the demand for Tiger parts is centered in several parts of Asia where there is a strong market for traditional medicines made from items like tiger bone and body parts. Volumes are sizeable and there has been little enforcement action against poachers and traders

What Needs to be Done to Save the Tiger:
- Local institutions and people Scientists who were closely involved in managing tigers at the local level, Hemendra Panwar of India and Hemanta Mishra of Nepal, pointed out an important lesson more than a decade ago: unless local community needs are met, conservation of the tiger will not succeed and protected areas will perish. Therefore, conservation programmes

Sharks: predator or prey?
Sharks are disappearing at a faster rate than they can reproduce. The explosive growth of the fishing industry, both sport and professional, accounts for much of this decline. One of the most destructive uses of sharks is finning. Caught for the production of shark fins soup, sharks are hauled up on deck to have their fins and tails sliced off and are then dumped back into the sea, often still alive. Finning is a very lucrative business.


How you can help
The Shark Trust asks divers and non-divers to sign an online petition available on www.sharktrust.org. WildAid appeals to divers and travellers for more evidence of shark finning. If you have pictures of any dead or finless sharks, if you have ever seen severed fins being offloaded from a boat, please report to WildAid www.wildaid.org. The more evidence that is gathered, the more successful the campaign for a global ban on shark finning will be.

so you can help out wold aid on this event

Each year, millions of kangaroos are killed in what is widely regarded as the largest wildlife massacre on the planet.

Shockingly, the number one supporters of this barbaric trade are sports shoe manufacturers, who purchase the skins and turn them into football boots. Adidas, one of the industry’s biggest customers, is a major driving force behind the industry.

In 2006, David Beckham, who is paid millions of pounds to promote Adidas products switched to synthetics after years of wearing kangaroo football boots. This was, in part, due to Viva!'s campaign. Read more about it . However, despite Beckham's change of heart Adidas continues to make many other football boots out of kangaroo leather.

Back in July 2002 Viva! was leaked an email sent out by John Kelly, spokesperson for the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia, which stated:

"This (soccer boot) industry is vital to the kangaroo industry. Without it underpinning kangaroo skin prices the entire industry would be at risk. Adidas have received to date over 10,000 emails complaining about their use of kangaroo leather...and are obviously concerned about damage to their image.

This is proof that Adidas - and other companies using kangaroo skin are responsible for the violent and unnecessary deaths of adult kangaroos and their baby joeys - all for the sake of a sports shoe!

Most versions of the Adidas Predator football boot are made from Kangaroo skin.

There is no excuse for Adidas to continue supporting an industry that causes so much suffering. The original designer of the Predator boot, ex-Liverpool player Craig Johnston, has publically stated:

"The original model [of the Predator] was an all-rubber shoe. Synthetics, rubbers and new materials are definitely the future of football boots. I don’t agree with killing kangaroos."

There are modern, hi-tec synthetic fabrics available which Adidas could switch to right now. The fact that Adidas' own Beckham version of the the Absolute Predator is made from synthetics dispels the myth once and for all that top football players won't wear synthetics! Ronaldo - arguably the best football player in the world - wears a boot which is made of 100 per cent synthetic materials. If boots made from synthetic  meterials are good enough for Ronaldo (and now David Beckham) then Adidas has no excuse for not using them too!

Adidas are well aware of the cruelty behind the kangaroo industry. Viva! has written to them on countless occasions, sent them harrowing video footage of a kangaroo hunt , presented them with a report into cruelty in the commercial kangaroo industry (based on evidence collected by the Australian RSPCA) but still they fund the kangaroo massacre.

By continuing to use kangaroo-skin, Adidas is showing itself to be devoid of compassion and ethics. The Predator boot is living up to its name, leaving a trail of blood in the outback.

in january 2007 there is going to be a huge door to door fundraiser for animals wich contributes in going to animal help organisations such as greenpeace/wwf/wspa/wildaid/savethetigerfunds/save the whales/save the turtles/savethe koala/ savethe sharks/defenders of wildlife/wildlife conservation society/wildlife warriors/ifaw/dogaid/freethebears and alot more we are we are hoping to raise as much as we can. it will be held in australia on the central coast.
here are a few wildlife logos

               

               

                   

if you would like to donate some money for these poor animals then i am more then happy for you to send and then i will give that money to all of these wildlife organisations or if you want any detailslto mail the money to me then email me by savethewildlife2@hotmail.com
we are looking forward to the fundraiser and we hope that you are.

in january 2007 there is going to be a huge door to door fundraiser for animals wich contributes in going to animal help organisations such as greenpeace/wwf/wspa/wildaid/savethetigerfunds/save the whales/save the turtles/savethe koala/ savethe sharks/defenders of wildlife/wildlife conservation society/wildlife warriors/ifaw/dogaid/freethebears and alot more we are we are hoping to raise as much as we can. it will be held in australia on the central coast.
here are a few wildlife logos

               

               

                   

if you would like to donate some money for these poor animals then i am more then happy for you to send and then i will give that money to all of these wildlife organisations or if you want any detailslto mail the money to me then email me by savethewildlife2@hotmail.com
we are looking forward to the fundraiser and we hope that you are.

The Leviathan - a converted US Coast Guard ship recently bought by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and its leader Paul Watson, who rams whalers to stop them killing whales - is coming to save the whales.

The 61-metre ship has a top speed of 17 knots, enough to run down the Japanese whalers and the Leviathan crew won't be simply waving banners and trying to get in the way.

Captain Watson has sunk 10 ships in his 27-year crusade to save the leviathans of the sea.

Yesterday he vowed to hurl all the might and speed of his new ship against the Japanese whaling fleet.

Last year Captain Watson watched in frustration as the whalers outran his 48-year-old trawler Farley Mowat despite its attempt to ram and tear open the side of the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru.

Six Japanese ships are due in the Ross Sea and Australian Antarctic waters in the next couple of weeks, determined to kill 935 minke whales and, for the first time, 10 fin whales, all in the name of science.

Equally determined to stop them will be the largest ever protest fleet of four ships, two from Sea Shepherd and two from Greenpeace.