The ahlid ari World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and other agencies said that now only about 3,200 tigers remaining in the wild. This amount of total free fall in the 90's where there are still about 100 thousand tigers.
James Leape, director general of the World Wildlife Fund, the meeting revealed that appropriate protection measures are not taken, the tiger may be lost by 2022, or in the next tiger in the Chinese calendar.
Tiger habitat was destroyed by deforestation and forest conversion for a particular commodity. Especially for the hunters still want the skin and target and other tiger parts for traditional pengoatan.
The meeting approved the program of the world tiger population doubling in the wild by 2022 is supported by the governments of 13 countries which still have tiger populations namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and Russia .
Global Recovery Programme estimates that Tiger will need funding of about 350 million dollars to start a step penyelamata tiger. This meeting will also seek donor commitment to help the government finance the conservation measures.
"For some people, the tiger is one of the wonders of the world," Leape said. Tiger, he added, also is an animal that could encourage more people to care about the forests and meadows.
The program aims to protect the habitat of tigers, combat poaching, smuggling, and illegal trade in tigers and their body parts, and creating incentives for local communities to involve them in helping to protect the "big cats".
The host of this meeting was the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, pushed by the Global Tiger Initiative which was launched two years ago by World Bank President Robert Zoellick.
SOURCE : REPUBLIKA
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