Wild tigers are disappearing, but...........
Sandeep Sharma of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in
Washington, D.C., and his colleagues used genetic analysis and
historical data to show that wild tigers in central India (estimated at
273 individuals) are using strips of forests, or "forest corridors," to
find each other and mate. Despite quickly encroaching human development,
the tigers are using what habitat is left, and hopefully keeping their species from extinction.
These forest corridors are not protected, however. Even now, companies
are buying and developing the land that these tigers are using.
Picture courtesy of:
http://www.treehugger.com/
Sources:
http://www.sciencenews.org/
Wild tigers are disappearing, but...........
Sandeep Sharma of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues used genetic analysis and historical data to show that wild tigers in central India (estimated at 273 individuals) are using strips of forests, or "forest corridors," to find each other and mate. Despite quickly encroaching human development, the tigers are using what habitat is left, and hopefully keeping their species from extinction.
These forest corridors are not protected, however. Even now, companies are buying and developing the land that these tigers are using.
Picture courtesy of:
http://www.treehugger.com/
Sources:
http://www.sciencenews.org/
Sandeep Sharma of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues used genetic analysis and historical data to show that wild tigers in central India (estimated at 273 individuals) are using strips of forests, or "forest corridors," to find each other and mate. Despite quickly encroaching human development, the tigers are using what habitat is left, and hopefully keeping their species from extinction.
These forest corridors are not protected, however. Even now, companies are buying and developing the land that these tigers are using.
Picture courtesy of:
http://www.treehugger.com/
Sources:
http://www.sciencenews.org/
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