13 countries are meeting to discuss plans to work together to save tigers.
The aim of the three-day meeting is to convince countries to pledge to spend more on tiger conservation and set targets for boosting their numbers — vows that would then be finalized by heads of state in September at a meeting in Russia.
Of course, I’m sure that none of the measures they consider involve making tigers a farmable resource. Not like it didn’t help revive the Southern White Rhino population or anything.
Update: And I was right.
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Interesting about the Rhino’s… I don’t think hunting tigers is probably part of the answer, and they differ from the White Rhino. Is there a male surplus issue with Tigers as well? Regardless, exotic game should be a right, even if highly regulated, it averts hunting illegally on property, as well as encourages the private sector to breed and profit. Some issues do have win/wins
I stated that wrong.. I don’t think hunting tigers is a very large factor of the answer to the problem is what I was meaning..