Profile for TylerB
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University of Alberta
I am taking Conservation Biology as my major in university. I really don't like the shockingly rampant cruelty towards farm animals that I have become aware happens in North America (and probably elsewhere as well). I also don't like how economically driven many peoples lives are (which I think leads to carelessness about nature), and I hope for a future where humans exist in harmony with nature. I love nature and want to ensure that it is not destroyed when it doesn't have to be--for example, potentially some people may burn down part of a forest to farm, but if they had known how to do something else to gain money while leaving the forest intact, then in that situation I want to be the person creating that solution that will lead to that bit of forest staying intact.
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A Potential Reason for Saving Tigers in Tigers - The "king" threatened with extinction
Posted on Jul 01 2010 at 01:42AM by TylerB
I think an argument for why we should not save tigers could be that some people around tiger areas benefit economically from killing tigers. In a great article about Tiger conservation, in the June/July 2009 issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine, it is reported that the "illegal international wildlife trade generates $20 billion a year" (page 64) and that "a tiger skin sold in China can fetch $50,000, almost 50 times the amount paid to poachers" (page 81). But that still leaves an instant $1,000 paid to poachers, enough to feed their family for a while, potentially.
So, I think the tiger should be saved, but solutions need to be made that take economic considerations into account. Making solutions that benefit local people, while at the same time saving tigers--potentially making the tiger worth more alive than dead.
So hopefully a reason for saving tigers can become something like "it is worth more to the local people alive than it is dead."
Read more on this topic »A Potential Reason for Saving Tigers in Tigers - The "king" threatened with extinction
Posted on Jul 01 2010 at 01:42AM by TylerB
I think an argument for why we should not save tigers could be that some people around tiger areas benefit economically from killing tigers. In a great article about Tiger conservation, in the June/July 2009 issue of National Geographic Adventure Magazine, it is reported that the "illegal international wildlife trade generates $20 billion a year" (page 64) and that "a tiger skin sold in China can fetch $50,000, almost 50 times the amount paid to poachers" (page 81). But that still leaves an instant $1,000 paid to poachers, enough to feed their family for a while, potentially.
So, I think the tiger should be saved, but solutions need to be made that take economic considerations into account. Making solutions that benefit local people, while at the same time saving tigers--potentially making the tiger worth more alive than dead.
So hopefully a reason for saving tigers can become something like "it is worth more to the local people alive than it is dead."
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