Tuesday, November 30, 2004
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Only 5,000 wild tigers left

It is believed that only 5,000 wild tigers are left in the world. Their decline from 100,000 at the start of the 20th century is due to "Commercial trade of tiger skin stemming out of female fantasy and vanity appears as a major threat to tigers in most tiger range countries," said S.C. Dey, general secretary of the Global Tiger Forum.