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Indian Tiger Park Now Tiger-Free
Panna National Park is now officially tiger free making it the second Indian tiger sanctuary to no longer have a tiger population. A census was conducted in the park, after authorities reported no Bengal Tiger sightings for a long time. Three years ago the park had a population of 24 tigers; however, none were found this year. Forest minister Rajendra Shukla is optimistic about the news and says, "Panna is our only park which has lost on this count. Three of state's reserve forests — Kanha, Bandhavgarh and Pench — have been adjudged among the best managed tiger reserves in the country."
How do you say "you're doing it wrong" in their local language?
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
if evolution allowed them to prosper we wouldn't even be in the way! causing the eventual end of a species is just that the end!
Your number one priority in a Tiger Park is... to maintain the tiger population. How the fuck do you let 24 tigers die in 36 months? Am I the only one that thinks that maybe after the first 12 months someone should have said, "wait a minute, we've got less tigers now than 12 months ago" and tried to figure out what the fuck was going wrong? How the fuck do you not notice anything is wrong in three years? Surely 24 tigers did not die in the past few months, right?
Maybe I'm assuming too much; I was sick the day they taught tiger maintenance at tiger school.
They weren't tracking these things electronically? The technology to track animals has existed for years and surely they would have access to electronic tags and GPS tracking devices.
Freedom is drinking a beer in the park when you're supposed to be at work.
The asian manager of the reserve experienced massive penile growth over the past three years, and when asked about the secret of his "LONGevity", he credited "eating tiger pen^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hchinese herbs".
So, I guess this rock that's supposed to keep tigers away really does work. Suck it!
They're....GOOOONNNNE!!
(No, really, this is awful news)
I just set up a tiger park in my office - where do I apply for funding to look after the tigers?
I haven't seen Tony the Tiger ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_the_Tiger ) for a while on TV.
Maybe he is from that Park and he has just vanished... ;-(
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Humans are destroying everything natural in this world. I just hope we destory things faster so that the Earth can wipe us out and then start over with some newer species that will hopefully not rip the planet apart the way we do. The way we handle everything natural (trees, animals, air, water, soil), we deserve to be added to the list of species that have gone extinct.
What's really amusing is watching people try to rationalize why they deserve to exist. Right, because the species that chooses to force animals to mate in cages in order to be mass-slaughtered for food and clothing, the species that tears down forests to clear space for agrigulture and cities, the species whose members will literally do anything to "get ahead" of their neighbour in terms of money and power, the species who does nothing more than crave constant entertainment and shoveling their faces with as much food as they can get their fat hands on... yes, surely this is the species that deserves to dominate the planet.
Of course, the most disgusting and saddening thing is that almost all people don't see anything wrong with us as a species. That somehow since we're just flesh and blood, everything we do is "natural". Yeah ok. Go back to drinking your Coke or Pepsi. It has absolutely no benefit to your body. But do it anyway, because it tastes good. That's all that matters.
next town over, maybe the tigers RELOCATED?
I'm so glad they got rid of the all the tiger that fouled up the place. It really brought down the whole place.
Magnificent animals.
Meanwhile the human population of India goes exponential.
The manager lets the poacher hunt the tigers for their own reasons, and gets a chunk of the profit. Everyone is happy except the conservationists and the tigers.
The manager lets the poacher hunt the tigers for their own reasons, and gets a chunk of the profit. Everyone is happy except the conservationists and the tigers.
fuck.
Reading the headline you'd think that was a good thing. Yay! Our park is now free from those nasty tigers!
:)
Hopefully the tigers just went elsewhere (other than to the great big tiger preserve in the sky). No, I did not read the article.
William Blake
Given that I'm a strong environmentalist my bias is unabashedly strong, but as a confirmed atheist even I can say that if we loose this species by way of our ignorance and greed we may have grounds for establishing original sin in our kind.
ideopath @ play
Why go to tiger free park when you can go to tiger free world.
Turns out Lisa's rock really did work.
Not much of a cheese shop, is it?
poaching is rampant there and i would not be surprised if some of the park officials are in on it. However, that's not the real cause. The real cause would be its demand in primarily oriental countries like China, Vietnam etc where they use tiger meat and bones (I think every part of their body) for medicinal/spiritual purposes. I think the open border into India's Himalayan neighbor Nepal has also affected Nepal's own tiger and rhino population. Hope the NGO's and the government clamps down these poachers. I am not sure what the remedy to the demand from the Oriental countries is besides Education and stricter rules about imports of the remains of these Endangered species.
I guess I was lucky. I was able to see one at the Corbett reserve in Ramnagar last year (there aren't too many and they're very people-shy- I was there three days, went all over the park and only saw one). Sounds like with the typical poor governance/law enforcement and general bad management in India the poachers are having a field day. Who knows how many more years anybody will be able to find a tiger in a tiger park in India?
They should just start shooting poachers on site and selling their body parts to the Chinese. Everyone wins. The article did say it's possible the tigers migrated to another park, but if they weren't keeping track of them I guess it's going to be hard to verify.
The reason the poachers are bold is because nobody has done the math. 6 billion monkeys on the planet = common. ~3k tigers left on the planet = rare. Perhaps they should start demonstrating that they value tigers more than monkeys.
Start guarding the park. anyone found inside for any reason without evidence of poaching will be killed on sight. People found poaching will be horribly public tortured for a month and then executed. Put severed heads on stakes around the borders of the park. Anyone found with tiger parts in the country will be immediately executed. Quite simply, they need to make entering the park seem like a automatic death sentence. Until they show a will to go farther than the poachers, they will lose and tigers will die.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
They should have evolved a bulletproof skin, a gun on their forehead and a lawyer on their back.
One to protect them from direct attack by humans, one to protect their home with force and the third to do the same - only in court.
And even that probably wouldn't do them much good considering that "civilized" humans had up until recently found "local" humans to be less than those tigers and little more than apes.
When I say "civilized" and "local" I mean white and brown.
Heck! White humans have nearly killed off an entire continent's population of red humans - who had guns and horses and whatnot...
And oversized cats should "evolve".
Yeah, sure...
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Could they have died from starvation ? a tiger must eat alot of freshly hunted food. It is not only the tigers that must be preserved, it's the whole food chain bellow the tiger !
Obvious isn't it? "The Market will decide". This famous beastie called the market will decide what survives and what doesn't... and in India where there's a fair few people living on a dollar a day (say a hundred million or so people) then the idea of making a couple of thousand dollars for a days work hunting down and killing (poaching) a tiger seems quite attractive. What would you do for 6 years your current salary as a day's work?
India - developing country - limited resources - can't fund its nature reserves or equip its park rangers like a western country might, versus a lot of folk who see an opportunity to make several years wages in a day.
The west has to take a lot of the blame for reducing the numbers down to where they are right now, hunting tigers in India was big sport at the turn of the last century.
Is this one of the 4 Freedoms I keep hearing about ?
Squirrel!
Tigers are clearly a danger to the parks visitors so the new visitor safety campaign appears to be a great success and tourists can now roam freely around the tiger park without worrying that they or their children might become a tiger snack.
Hyde Park in central London is as much a tiger park as the one in India. No doubt my back garden could be a hippopotamus reserve too.
This makes India the laughing stock of the world. It is difficult to see how they could be more inept.
Still, they don't care. More space to build the high rises and shopping malls now.
of this reserves managers, however I think India has a whole lot more to worry about than tigers. Yeah, while I sit in my comfy chair in an air conditioned building I can see where other people get off beating on countries for not doing what we want.
The simple matter is, India at least is trying to protect the tigers. They also are trying to manage a large population of people who essentially live like they have for thousands of years and bring them into what many of us would still not consider acceptable living let alone modern.
So yeah, we lose a few tigers. If the tigers are so important to the rest of the world then I suggest the rest of the world establish sanctuaries in their own territories and save them.
I am more concerned with India figuring out how to live peacefully with Pakistan and keeping religious strife between Hindu's and Muslims in check. While it is nice to look at tigers and appreciate nature's beauty the number of people who died to violence in the time it took me to write this far exceeds any tiger loss.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
The salary and benefits of a typical forest ranger in India is about 250$ a month, while his nephew in the city with barely passable English makes some 700$ a month in IT, phone bank, help desk jobs and more if technically qualified. Any wonder the warden turns a blind eye to poaching and accepts bribes?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
But I see a world that's getting more screwed by humanity every day; we're all guilty.
I can't believe people still fall for this hoax... There is no such thing as tigers!
There were no lasers prior to 1960s. Way to late for them to start evolving one.
On the other hand... HAD they evolved 'frickin' lasers on their heads human armed conflicts would have been far more interesting.
If we could pry some of those lasers of off their heads and used them ourselves. And if all those lawyers on their backs would let us.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Three of state's reserve forests - Kanha, Bandhavgarh and Pench - have been adjudged among the best managed tiger reserves in the country."
Have you counted the tigers there recently?
[Insert pithy quote here]
...that can make a stand to a post-gunpowder human?
And unicorns and aliens don't count.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
You go first. Seriously. Go kill yourself and reduce the burden on the planet. Put your money where your mouth is. If you have kids, kill them too. And everyone you love. No? You don't want to? Then go fuck yourself. I'm sick of people like you who project their own feelings of shame and inadequacy on the entire population.
Have a great day,
-b
No offense, but I've stopped responding to AC's.
"Now eventually you might have tigers on your, on your tiger tour, right?"
RIP, Jeff Goldblum.
What's so special about tigers that makes them more important than all the other species that we've hunted to extinction?
-b
No offense, but I've stopped responding to AC's.
In the third-world wildlife either pays for itself or it vanishes, plain and simple. With a desperate population on the verge of starvation, any resource not viewed as life-improving will quickly vanish. That's why tourism and well-regulated sport hunting are so important to the management of wildlife in the third world. It's also why game ranches for commercial purposes are a necessary tool for the successful restoration of many endangered species. John Stossel's video article below is very illuminating, and offers a new way of viewing the issue.
http://jezebel.com/5249594/we-can-save-endangered-species-byeating-them
"Man is nothing without the works of man" -- Helvetius
In a world where people thing eating body parts of animals brings good luck and potentcy, wage war, give Brittney Spears a Grammy, do we seriously consider preserving Tiger populations?
I think we expect too much of ourselves when stopping and taking a good hard look at the majority of our priorities are.
I don't think we are getting smarter collectively anymore, if anything we've turned on the stupid and are drinking deep from the spiggot.
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
I agree.. if they weren't busy being lazy and on the dole, maybe they would have evolved already. Hell.. maybe they transcended mortal existence! Maybe they are actually like Dolphins and escaped earth due to our imminent demise?
If Bengali's tiger population disappears, they can visit the Cincinnati Zoo to see Bengal tigers.
"Who Dey!"
right no one will probably see this post but what ever. This is extremly fucked up. 24 tigers dissapear in 3 years and the dude is optimistic about the news?? WTF?? ITS A TIGER SANCTUARY!!! They (the tigers) have been poached. God damned lazy assed uncaring assholes.
"Ford," he said, "how many tigers are there?"
"None," said Ford.
Zaphod gibbered.
"Did you count them?" he yelled.
"Twice!"
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
> Three years ago the park had a population of 24 tigers, however none were found this year.
In a completely unrelated story, 24 flabulously wealthy men around the world are suing an undisclosed business because they were not actually able to get erections after taking a certain hideously expensive medicine.
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yeah http://www.dostyakasi.com/