Is there, realistically, a chance that tigers as a species will survive?

Question

Taken from a Guardian news article a few days ago:

"Police were searching for the culprits behind the beheading and skinning of a rare Siberian tiger at a zoo in central China, state media reported yesterday.

The female tiger was found with its head, legs and skin missing Thursday morning at the Three Gorges Forest Wild Animal World in Yichang city in Hubei province, Xinhua News Agency.

It said the locks of the tiger's cage were broken and that police found four homemade anaesthetic rifles near the cage."

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2231982,00.html)

I felt almost physically sick after reading this, even more so when I heard later on another news site that in a Chinese zoo (article did not say which zoo), two baby tigers had been found dead in a freezer, implying that the zoo had been instrumental in their deaths.

If greed reaches endangered animals even beyond the bars of zoo cages, how do they have any hope in h**l of surviving?

Answer 1

No.

Their habitat is under massive pressure from humans. They are the walking dead, just a matter of time.

Plenty of "ugly" and unpopular animals are also on the way out but don't get the press coverage of the majestic, large or cute animals.

Habitat conservation is the best way to protect not only the big and obvious organisms but all the little unpopular ones too. If you want to donate $ to conservation, please don't give it to a single species fund like "Save the Tiger" but give it to an organisation that works towards saving large contiginous areas of habitat.

Answer 2

EXACTLY MY SENTIMENTS!

There was a zoo earlier in the year that was highlighted on ITV investigative features,in which tigers were being sold to the CHINESE MEDICINE black market somehow by a corrupt Chinese zoo,these poor creatures!

I have been around big cats since a small child,adore tigers, and would love to get my hands on a poacher believe me Id do to them tortures they'd not even invented!!!

I hope big organisations like

WAZA (world association of zoos and aquaria) gets off its well upholstered backside and does some VERY proactive SWIFT MEASURE to put a STOP to this EVER happening again.

The Western world and conservationists and big cat lovers must protest to Them over this, and NOT let this barbaric atrocity go unpunished,undetected,or be allowed to be forgotten.The perpetrators should be severely punished as the poor animals are supposed to be protected in the zoo,as a qualified Risk assessor this so called "zoo" wildlife park is disgrace as far as animals safety and welfare is concerned after this in short it ISN'T FIT FOR PURPOSE!

Monitors of zoos DO SOMETHING!...

NOW!!!

Answer 3

tigers will survive in zoos, but not in the wild.

Answer 4

Hi. I'm in England,  you're talking about certain societies here. Lets face it, they're not as educated as some of us are and will do anything for money.Tigers WILL survive even if its to be in zoos. The old concept of not keeping animals in zoos has changed. Zoos themselves have changed. Yes all animals are better off in the wild, but we can preserve them and keep the gene pool going if we realise the f*k  up we've

made and try to sort it out.

Answer 5

Well, lets see, the so-called Bible states that man shall have dominion over all beasts of the earth.

To me, thats telling people that they can kill all animals without any regard for them what so ever.  If you take a look at what humankind has done to our mother earth, our record is pretty dismal to say the least.

Our own desmise won't be too far away from that of all the animals on the earth.

Answer 6

it depends upon how we all think in the future. or i thnk there is no future for tigers as the present situtaion itself is worthy enough to set its fate to the negative part of its life.

we the humans have to be very careful now that tigers are gonna be extinct soon. whom are we to blame?

Answer 7

We dont have Tigers in the UK anyway and if we did they would bite us as they dont tend to be friendly.

Answer 8

What about the tigers in the wild? They are losing their homes and are getting killed by poachers. We need to stop deforestation and prosecute people for killing animals for money! For the zoos..I don't think that is an ideal place for wild animals to live.

Answer 9

omg that is so horrible....i think tigers will survive in general but the siberian tigers are fairly screwed as a species, they practically have no hope and its so sad...

Answer 10

The only likely way of saving tigers (cloning) is the only avenue which is not being explored.

Blame the enviro-mentalists who insist that cloning is "bad" (bad for whom?) despite the potential benefits.

Answer 11

Good news, tigers have started striking back in San Francisco

Answer 12

This is really awful. People will regret it when they are gone.

Answer 13

ow, i didnt want to hear this.

yuck, its really really sickening.

im sure and hoping their will be something more done towards this, everyone knows what a tiger is since young so they cant go instinct.

i know they're less because of less wild life, environment and habitat changes.

anyways, that thing done in china is pure criminal offence. they need to sort it out. as well with the wild life associations...

Answer 14

Realistically, no, because of the incidents like those ones.

Answer 15

Why do we take advantage of what is around us, sapiens as an entity on his planet are worse than a parasite. If we do not heed the warnings we will one day find ourselves in those same cages, close to death.

Answer 16

i hope so

Answer 17

I think even tigers sense their own plight, they are striking back at humans out of instinct:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/ap_o...

Answer 18

put everything that hurts people in a zoo