Thirteen countries pledge to repopulate world's wild tigers ...

That's down from 100000 a century ago. Habitat destruction and poaching of the big cats for ingredients for traditional medicine and for curios like rugs are the chief causes of the crash. wild-tiger-photo-2.jpg. NGS stock photo by Michael Nichols ... Let us join together boldly to save the wild tiger," WWF reported Thailand's Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Suwit Khunkitti, said in Hua Hin, at the First Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation. ...