Grave threats to tigers
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Tigers are threatened in Asia from Siberia to Nepal and India. Traditional Chinese medicine uses tiger bones in several concoctions and has provided market incentives for poachers in the Far East. Only about 7,000 tigers remain in the wild and additional poaching and intrusion into their habitat could bring their extinction. Logging operations in Russia threaten the Siberian tiger by disturbing its habitat. Contracts with Hyundai Corp of South Korea and Weyerhaeuser Co of the US allow clear cutting in major tiger habitats in Siberia.
Publication Name: Wildlife Conservation
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1048-4949
Year: 1993
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Interior redecorating: Secretary Bruce Babbitt is bringing changes to the Interior Department
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Bruce Babbitt hopes to use his position as Secretary of the Dept of the Interior to strike a balance between conservationists and business and to address environmental issues in a non-confrontational manner. Babbitt believes working together will allow people to spot potential problems in time to avoid catastrophe. He hopes to prove that the Endangered Species Act can be an effective way of protecting wildlife and he has organized a National Biological Survey to study local ecosystems across the country.
Publication Name: Wildlife Conservation
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1048-4949
Year: 1993
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Female squirrels reject chastity belts
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The male squirrel deposits a plug of coagulated semen in the female's vagina during mating which seems to be intended to function as a sort of chastity belt and prevent any further copulation. However, the females routinely remove these plugs, exhibiting what seems to be instinctual knowledge that a wider range of mates produces a higher probability of survival among the offspring.
Publication Name: Wildlife Conservation
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1048-4949
Year: 1993
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