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Global monitor warns PM on tiger crisis
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| The Indian Express , Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
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| The international agency monitoring endangered species on Tuesday made a “last ditch” appeal to PM Manmohan Singh to save the “endangered Indian tiger”, amid fears that poaching is rampant in the country.In a rare move, secretary of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (cites) Willem Wijnstekers wrote to Singh on April 12: “Even if some of the alarming reports emerging from India are not wholly accurate, there can be no doubt that India’s wildlife continues to be plundered by poachers and unscrupulous traders.”
There are about 3,500 to 3,700 Indian tigers left,according to official estimates. Cites believes the current numbers may overestimate the tiger population.
Wijnstekers also complained of the lack of an organised official response to counter poaching networks. “It seems, for reasons unknown to us... That internal developments have either not taken place or that such work is moving slowly,” Wijnstekers wrote.
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