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sebasmoonocioycultura-blog · 13 years ago
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India's Black Market Is Alive
India's Black Market Is Alive—Wildlife Is Not A roomful of contraband represents a rude awakening for India's wildlife officials, who say they did not realize the severity of the poaching problem. Six months ago four raids netted: * 12 tiger skins * 132 claws from eight tigers * 385 pounds of animal bones * 124 leopard skins * 18,080 claws of more than a thousand leopards. The evidence is sobering, since India has about 60 percent of the world's remaining 4,500 to 7,000 tigers. A news report suggested that one seized skin might be that of the tigress called Sita, featured in the December 1997 GEOGRAPHIC. However, Belinda Wright, executive director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India, examined the pelt and says that its markings "are definitely not Sita's." Authorities believe that the tiger, 16 years old when last seen in October 1998, has probably died of natural causes.
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