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Posted by So maybe Life of Pi didn’t take the whole Oscar cake (forgive me, father, for my puns). But the movie was definitely a winner – best director, best visual effects, best cinematography, best score. It was also the highest-grossing Oscar nominated film … in India last year, where it took in a reported $17 million.…
Tiger Poachers Get Stiff Sentences
Posted by David Robinson on March 9, 2012 
Two men received substantial prison sentences after being convicting of poaching in Thailand earlier this year. One convicted tiger poacher, a Vietnamese citizen, received four years in prison; the other, a Thai national, received five—the most severe punishment for wildlife poaching ever given in Thailand. The men had been convicted in Thai court on February 19.…
Posted by Here’s a hard to believe statistic, by some esitmates there are more tigers in captivity in the state of Texas than there are tigers roaming free in the wild in all of Asia. There’s no debating the fact tigers are endangered. This past year I went to India to see tigers in their natural habitat.…
Rare Glimpse of Sumatran Wild Tiger Family
Posted by Ford Cochran on January 12, 2010 National Geographic Conservation Trust grantee Barney Long, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Senior Program Officer for Asian Species, visited Society headquarters yesterday to discuss the plight of Asia’s wild tigers, and to share rare, newly-captured close-up video of a wild female Sumatran tiger and her young. WWF researchers obtained the footage from a video camera trap…
Name That Mammal
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 31, 2009 As I mentioned not long ago, National Geographic Weekend radio host Boyd Matson (at right above) and producer Ben Shaw invited me to join them on a trip across town to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Boyd and Ben had an appointment with biologist Kristofer Helgen, a 2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer who…
Bengal Tiger Preserve Loses Its Last Tiger
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 17, 2009 Stefan Caiafa writes for Intelligent Travel of coming face to face with one of the last Bengal tigers in India’s Panna National Park—a popular tourist destination and tiger reserve—and of a report from the BBC that no tigers remain in the park. The Indian government’s Ministry of Tourism recognized Panna in 2007 as the country’s…
