(MN) Myanmar's Hukuang reserve has less than 100 tigers

[Guest guest]

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jkhtadcafib & title=Myanmar

 

Myanmar's Hukuang reserve has less than 100 tigers

2009-10-07 19:00:00

 

Myanmar's 22,000 sq km vast Hukuang Tiger Reserve situated in the northern

province of Kachin has now less than 100 tigers, a report said Wednesday.

 

The fall in the tiger population was attributed to the killing of their preys

for human consumption and trading as well as to the use of tiger bones and its

other body parts for producing traditional medicines, a Wildlife Conservation

Society (WCS) report said.

 

Myanmar's wildlife police and forest rangers have planned to step up combating

illegal wildlife trade in the reserve area and special training programmes have

been introduced jointly by the Myanmar's forest ministry and the WCS.

 

The authorities have also called for creating a balance between the local

people's needs and the wildlife.

 

Two kinds of tiger, namely, Bengal and Indochina tigers are found in mangrove

plantations, grass fields, icy regions, pine forests and tropical evergreen

forests in Myanmar.

 

Experts say that the country was estimated to have over 3,000 Bengal and

Indochina tigers in 1980, the second in Asia after India.

--

Thank you for your compassion !

With best regards,

Debasis Chakrabarti

Compassionate Crusaders Trust

http://www.animalcrusaders.org