Panna National Park, One Of India's Tiger Reserves, Now 100% Tiger-Free - Mongabay

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Panna National Park, one of India's tiger reserves, no longer supports tigers, reports BBC News.

State Minister of Forests Rajendra Shukla said a recent survey found the reserve no longer has any tigers. Three years ago it had 24.

BBC reports Panna is the second tiger reserve in India where the tiger population has fallen to zero. Sariska in Rajasthan was the first.

Experts say commercial poaching of tigers for traditional medicines is likely behind the declines.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0715-tigers.html

Oh, and did I mention? Fuck Chinese AND Indian traditional medicine.

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1. The amazing thing

is they lasted as long as they did. If tigers were native to the U.S they would have been rubbed out a hundred years ago.

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2. Yes, and then we would have put up a statue to them in the nation's capital

Kind of like we already did with the bison . . .

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3. There are still bison

They're called buffalo.

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4. There are still big cats in the states.

I don't see the connection with wiping them out, unless you're trying to defend, in a round about way, Chinese medicine.

I really Couldn't think of a native north American animal we drove to extinction, I had to look it up...

http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep16a.htm