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The population of big cats is declining at an alarming rate. Is it too late to save them?

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In India tigers are in trouble again—and it may be the last time. Wildlife conservation experts now believe that India has so few tigers left, and they have so little room to maneuver, that populations have no recourse but to dwindle to extinction. Alan Rabinowitz, president and CEO of the Panthera Foundation, has championed tigers, jaguars, leopards and pumas and worked to preserve their habitats, from South America to Southeast Asia. Formerly the executive director of science of exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo, Rabinowitz wrote "Life in the Valley of Death," about his recent experience negotiating with the Burmese dictator to create the largest tiger reserve in the world, in the Hukaung Valley in Burma. NEWSWEEK's Lily Huang spoke with Rabinowitz by phone about the work of conservation and strategies for the future. Excerpts:
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The population of big cats is declining at an alarming rate. Is it too late to save them?

  • This is a very sad state of affairs, indeed!! Woe to us when we lose such beautiful animals as these to extinction! Thank-you for bringing this to light once again.
    cibalin
  • how sad. Good one, humans.
    urkovs
  • I don't want to be the one who tells my children "there used to be huge man eating cats - but we killed them". I mean, how will they ever enjoy Winnie the Pooh without Tiger?
    ipodrulz
  • We're pretty consistent wherever we go - We're the only carnivore we allow to keep living.
    24French
  • When its a turtle or a frog or something it doesn't hit you as hard but tigers... man..
    RonenA
  • I am sad to say....I think we saw this coming a long time ago and not enough was done then to help the cats now. There is a reason the cats are declining, and it is not all climate change. Humans really are pretty smart, it could have been different. Could BE different!
    rockon
  • 24French, we are omnivores, not carnivores, and we do allow our very carnivorous dogs and cats to live and even breed in vast numbers. :)
    Vierotchka
  • bugger
    jonbrooks
  • It's so sad to see such valiant creatures have their habitats squeezed to death.
    NcSchu
  • What is the matter with us....humans and the need to destroy everything?
    Neghie

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