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...China has been reduced from perhaps 4,000 to - Beijing disputes this - none. During Mao Zedong's time they were considered a pest and extermination campaigns were launched against them. Also taking a toll were loss of habitat, declining prey numbers and, as the economy took off, growing demand from traditional Chinese medicine for every part of the animal: whiskers, penis, bone, even feces...
...killed off within China's borders. In 1993, Beijing banned the nation's domestic trade in tigers and their parts and, today, China is one of 175 parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which outlawed tiger trafficking globally. But Chinese demand still drives a lucrative pan-Asian trade in poached tigers, which other countries blame for the accelerating decline in their own wild populations. In India, 88 tigers were killed in 2009 - double the previous year's figure. (See pictures of India's contraband wildlife...
...many conservationists. The farms ostensibly make their money from tourists, although some illegally sell tiger meat and parts. How can the same SFA officials who plan to save the South China tigers ignore the fate of thousands of their farm-raised cousins? The authorities argue that if public demand can be met by farms then wild tigers won't be poached. But conservationists believe these same facilities fuel demand and fatally undermine conservation efforts. Steven Galster, director of the Bangkok-based wildlife and human-rights group FREELAND, says the SFA is using the reintroduction scheme "to justify captive-tiger breeding...
Dunster House tutor and English teaching fellow Sabrina Sadique recalls an overwhelming demand for office hours toward the end of last semester as students scrambled to finish final papers...
...existence and circulation of study guides is simply a fact of college life and in light of the demand for such a collection, the UC was correct in going forward with the creation of a study guide library. After all, the construction of an online study guide library was a central plank in the campaign platform of current UC President and Vice President Johnny F. Bowman ’11 and Eric N. Hysen ’11. It is all too easy for student representatives to let proposed initiatives slide once in office, and Bowman and Hysen?...