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by bozoUser 2511 days ago
This is such a welcome news and a great start to the week!

But with the recent news about a tigress beaten to death in India and after coming across some videos in the social media on the tiger encounters with humans, I hope the Indian govt. also works on bolstering education and awareness campaigns across the rural population on the man vs animal encounters and also works towards preserving the forests where these encounters are reported.
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sidibe 2511 days ago
I don't know if any amount of "awareness" is going to stop the people who live near them from revenge killings of man-eaters. Hard to blame them honestly.

Tiger population growth means more people live next to them. And on the internet we'll argue that it's because there's too many people but they'll expand into whatever territory they're ceded and someone is always going to have to live near them.

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alexhutcheson 2510 days ago
Craig Packer (former director of the Serengeti Lion Project) has been a big advocate of fencing in the national parks in Africa to prevent this sort of human-wildlife conflict.

Here's his original paper: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12091

And here is an interview with a more high-level explanation: https://www.minnpost.com/earth-journal/2013/04/minnesota-res...

It's very controversial, but similar principles would apply in India to minimize human-tiger conflict. At least some of the tiger reserves are already fenced in, but I don't believe all of them are.

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lifeisstillgood 2511 days ago
How do you beat a tiger to death?

I mean, i understand this is a serious issue, about conservation, rural education, the clash between individual families living next to dangerous animals and far away state administration but .. beating a tiger ?! With sticks?!

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bozoUser 2511 days ago
SFW: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/27/world/tiger-beaten-death-indi...

Info from the link, 4000 tigers remain on earth out of which 3000 in India.

Wow!! just wow, take a bow - to the rangers, the NGO`s, the Govt and the population, this is something the country can be really proud about. A country with a huge population and struggling to keep pace with the rapid industrialization this is very good news. Like someone else said in the thread long way to go but immensely positive signs :)

Question to the readers: Have tigers existed in the Americas ? Were they hunt to extinction or ?

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AareyBaba 2511 days ago
Yes. There were saber-toothed tigers in downtown Los Angeles. You can see their skeletons at the La Brea Tar Pits. https://tarpits.org/experience-tar-pits
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