Meeeeee-ow
everybody! We are back with more on this
‘Siberian Tiger’ Sunday and meee-ow we have to get back on track. We were to distracted by some really loud
women on Tuesday and we have to get back to basics. So, where were we?
MOL…
We’re
back to the land of repetition! Let’s
put this to rest but we’ll leave the door open for any news. Are there tigers in Mongolia? If I had to guess I would say no. Keep in mind that the Bactrian Camel lives in
Mongolia and they are CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.
What does a camel have in common with a tiger? Absolutely nothing- my point is if something
like the camel is almost gone from that country it would be safe to assume
people would get trigger happy and blow any tiger out of the water. Mongolia though is an interesting
country. Recently Pallas Cats were
discovered there so if some news ever came out of there I wouldn’t be
surprised. Let’s paw on…
The
Siberian Tiger is a beautiful, yet frustrating animal for this reason- NO ONE
SEEMS TO KNOW CERTAIN FACTS FOR SURE.
For a long time you heard they were in North Korea, then suddenly
extinct from there, now people say they’re back BUT the population keeps
falling. One group says Caspian Tigers
were different from Siberian Tigers yet others say they were exactly the
same. Some say Indochinese Tigers are
gone- yet you have news articles saying a Siberian Tiger is wandering around
the northern part. How do you know it
wasn’t an Indochinese Tiger?
That’s
just it- you don’t.
The
number doesn’t seem to change. People
and we’ll use the IUCN Red List to make this point think there might be around
450 left in the Russian forest. Their
main threats are poaching and logging.
Here’s the thing with humanity- when it comes to nature they have no
concept of what is ‘the end.’ Poachers
think tigers multiply like rabbits and loggers shrug off the destruction of
beautiful forests because they figure ‘ah there are plenty of trees around.’
To be continued...
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