Sorry for the long hiatus from the blog. I've had plenty of things keeping me busy but I was browsing around on New York Times online and found an article that I thought was random but deals with my favorite animal, the Tiger. The unusual thing is, is that the person urging for better conservation efforts of the species is none other than major movie star Leonardo DiCaprio.
The article is about DiCaprio's efforts to persuade the juggernaut computer business, Apple, to do their part in aiding funding for the conservation of Tigers. The correlation between Apple and wildlife is that for the Mac's operating systems, Apple uses the names of big cat species such as Tiger, Snow Leopard and others. DiCaprio has been working with the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) to gather support for the conservation of the last few dozen breeding havens for Tigers.
This all took place on Twitter so it was a public ordeal, but it is also happening before the International Summit On Tiger Conservation in St. Petersberg. Studies concluded that there are about 2,500 adult individuals in the wild. This number is compared to the amount of tigers that are lost because of poaching and illegal animal trade. We just went over in my wildlife policy class about CITES, and a network monitoring poaching and traffic of rare wildlife just released findings in a journal stating that bones, skin and other body parts of over a 1,000 Tigers have been confiscated in the past decade.
I just want to end by saying that I'am glad to see that the mascot for Clemson University and my favorite animal get some attention from some big name people and corporation.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/dicaprio-presses-apple-to-aid-wild-tigers/?scp=4&sq=wildlife&st=cse
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