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Protecting Wild Tigers
FromNature Breaking
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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Oct 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This year marks the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese Lunar calendar. To mark this occasion, Ginette Hemley, WWF’s senior vice president for wildlife conservation, joins the show to talk about the global effort to protect wild tigers. Ginette touches on the current state of wild tiger populations (1:55), why protecting tigers matters to nature writ-large (4:52), what we’ve learned from a 12-year global initiative to double tiger numbers (9:38), and how people in the US can help make a difference (16:30). LINKS: WWF Action Center: Support the Big Cat Public Safety Act WWF’s Tiger Fact Page Op-Ed: On Global Tiger Day, Nepal notes milestone (Asia Times)
Released:
Oct 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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