Word: extinctionism
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Your report is thought provoking. If in 4 million years mankind has made such anthropological progress, one can only wonder what the next millennium will bring. Will technological advances cancel out further physiological and intellectual development? Will a willful disregard of the laws of natural selection bring a Utopian society...
The forces driving the black market are so strong that nothing -- not public opinion, not political pressure, not the power of police -- has halted the tiger's slide toward extinction. Can international trade sanctions against Asian nations succeed where all else has failed? There is no guarantee. The tiger's...
Only a few years ago, the tiger was considered a conservation success story. Centuries of legal tiger hunting and forest destruction had raised the specter of extinction, but in 1972 governments rallied to rescue the cats. Taking up the issue as a personal cause, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched...
The losses have been staggering. Last winter, Russian officials estimated that between 80 and 96 tigers were killed, and the poaching continues unabated this year. A new study of tiger-population dynamics led by biologist John Kenney of the University of Minnesota suggests that even moderate poaching makes extinction a...
Pressures from poaching and human population growth have pushed the big cats to the brink of extinction. Can trade sanctions against nations that use tiger parts protect the animal when parks, police and appeals to public opinion have failed?