Tigers could be exctinct within 12 years

[Anubis]

Eh, there's always cloning.

 

[sabetoonth]

Tigers extinct in just over a decade? that ****ing sucks

 

[ObakeTora]

Thats terrible, as the Tiger was easily my favorite animal. Humans being a close second.

 

[Raiden]

I guess tigers will only be seen in the zoo in the future. Humans just don't care about endangered species or the need for conservation, unfortunately.

 

[LOBO3315a]

Anyone ever think that stuff like this is reported just to sell newspapers? There's a sliver of our society that believes that everything that humans do is bad, and we have no redeeming qualities.

Then there's another sliver that thinks we somehow can create some sort of change. That we aren't just microbes clinging to a speck of rock in the endless void, and can do something to change our environment.

These types of stories cater to those people.

 

[sabetoonth]

I think we can change, but its incredibly not likely

 

[Kurosawa]

People generally only change for the worse. If money dictates that addressing this issue isn't important, then it won't be fixed.

 

[The Question]

Even if tht'a true, the only way things might even get a little bit better is if people try anyway. Giving up accomplishes nothing. Perserveering might accomplish something.

 

[Kurosawa]

Let's put it this way-the best shot for Tigers or any other endangered animal to avoid extinction is for powerful people with money to be convinced that there is a financial benefit in the preservation of the species, being for farming purposes, or whatever. The amount of people who are willing to do anything out of the goodness of their hearts-especially for a wild, predatory animal-is minimal.

 

[The Question]

Let's put it this way-the best shot for Tigers or any other endangered animal to avoid extinction is for powerful people with money to be convinced that there is a financial benefit in the preservation of the species, being for farming purposes, or whatever. The amount of people who are willing to do anything out of the goodness of their hearts-especially for a wild, predatory animal-is minimal.

So what's the harm in trying to find such people?

 

[Backstreets]

After the tigers become extinct, hunters will just find something else to make extinct, and so forth..

 

[ALP]

DoDo Birds>>>>>Tigers

 

[Danalys]

I read that they need to increase the amounts of the tigers prey. more tiger prey more tigers. and not killing them for "medicine" would help. and for all those that are saying the survival of the tiger will only happen if it's profitable for the rich are mostly right but your also wrong enough that some who are rich but actually care about stuff might do something just based on compassion. a small enough problem is one they can fix and feel good about.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Prediction - Since we humans need to play god all the f**king time. In 20 years there will be a over population of Tigers.

 

[Danalys]

rectifying our mistakes before it's too late isn't playing god. it's playing human.

 

[Schlosser85]

Trying to save a species from extinction when we are the predominant reason it is on the brink of extinction is not "playing God", it's trying to right one of our wrongs.

I would say wiping various species from the face of the Earth is more "playing God" than attempts at conservation.

 

[Franklin Richards]

I don't believe in God. So maybe I'll just play me. And me wants Tigers.

 

[Ghostvirus]

rectifying our mistakes before it's too late isn't playing god. it's playing human.

Trying to save a species from extinction when we are the predominant reason it is on the brink of extinction is not "playing God", it's trying to right one of our wrongs.

I would say wiping various species from the face of the Earth is more "playing God" than attempts at conservation.

Attempting to regulate the population of a species is playing god. Us having the ability to kill of the tiger population is natural selection. We are the dominate predator. We should act like it.

 

[Franklin Richards]

And what happens when the aliens show up in 20 years and want to talk to the tigers? We might not have the Enterprise to bail our asses out by then.

 

[StorminNorman]

The answer to saving tigers can be found in Capitalism.

Make tigers private property and you will ensure their survival.

 

[SuperFerret]

Trying to save a species from extinction when we are the predominant reason it is on the brink of extinction is not "playing God", it's trying to right one of our wrongs.

I would say wiping various species from the face of the Earth is more "playing God" than attempts at conservation.

Tigers are dying off because they cannot adapt to living in close quarters to a rapidly expanding dominant species, just like many, many, many species before it.

Why don't we quit pretending that Homo sapiens is somehow outside of nature, and that any effect we have on the world is not a neutral thing?

 

[Marx]

Trying to save a species from extinction when we are the predominant reason it is on the brink of extinction is not "playing God", it's trying to right one of our wrongs.

I would say wiping various species from the face of the Earth is more "playing God" than attempts at conservation.

I agree.

 

[terry78]

Well, if we don't do something about them now, those tigers will start sprouting up like weeds, taking jobs away from real Americans.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Tigers are dying off because they cannot adapt to living in close quarters to a rapidly expanding dominant species, just like many, many, many species before it.

Why don't we quit pretending that Homo sapiens is somehow outside of nature, and that any effect we have on the world is not a neutral thing?

 

[Poetic Chaos]

That's Noootttt Grrrreeeaattt!!!!

LOL! My kinda humor.