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    The wild tiger population is critically endangered, with fewer than 5,000 remaining worldwide. Their decline is due to illegal poaching for fur, bones, and other products, as well as loss of habitat as human settlements expand. In Russia, logging and poaching threaten Siberian tigers, but conservation efforts like radio collaring and creating protected areas have helped. While there is no single solution, balancing human development with tiger conservation through measures like wildlife tourism is crucial to ensuring the species' survival.

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    The wild tiger population is critically endangered, with fewer than 5,000 remaining worldwide. Their decline is due to illegal poaching for fur, bones, and other products, as well as loss of habitat as human settlements expand. In Russia, logging and poaching threaten Siberian tigers, but conservation efforts like radio collaring and creating protected areas have helped. While there is no single solution, balancing human development with tiger conservation through measures like wildlife tourism is crucial to ensuring the species' survival.

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    The wild tiger population is critically endangered, with fewer than 5,000 remaining worldwide. Their decline is due to illegal poaching for fur, bones, and other products, as well as loss of habitat as human settlements expand. In Russia, logging and poaching threaten Siberian tigers, but conservation efforts like radio collaring and creating protected areas have helped. While there is no single solution, balancing human development with tiger conservation through measures like wildlife tourism is crucial to ensuring the species' survival.

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    The Tragedy of The Tiger

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    The wild tiger population is critically endangered, with fewer than 5,000 remaining worldwide. Their decline is due to illegal poaching for fur, bones, and other products, as well as loss of habitat as human settlements expand. In Russia, logging and poaching threaten Siberian tigers, but conservation efforts like radio collaring and creating protected areas have helped. While there is no single solution, balancing human development with tiger conservation through measures like wildlife tourism is crucial to ensuring the species' survival.

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    The tragedy of the tiger

    Where the tigers live? North-eastern china, the Indian sub-continent and the Russian Far
    East are all home to different species of this beautiful big cat, but maybe not for much
    longer. According to a recent study by leading conservationists, the wild tiger is now
    closer to extinction than previously realized. In fact, it is thought that there are fewer
    than 5,000 tigers existing in the wild around the world. Illegal hunting is a huge factor.
    Most countries have laws that prohibit the hunting and trade of these animals, but the
    temptation for local poachers is great. A poor villager can earn up to 60 times his daily
    earnings by trapping and killing one tiger. This money may guarantee the survival of
    his family. The dead tiger is handed over to a middle man, who then often smuggles it
    abroad. Its fur may end up hanging on a wall and its bones may be used for medical
    purposes.

    The other factor affecting the survival of the wild tiger is the reduction of their natural
    habitat. When man moves into an area that was previously tiger territory, the tiger loses
    its natural prey since the villagers often hunt such animals for their own food. Then the
    tiger goes after the villagers’ cows and goats, and so it becomes the hunted. Another
    problem with reduced habitat is that the tigers will not cross open land, so they cannot
    get to isolated areas of forest breed with other tigers.

    One country that has taken action over the competition for habitat is Russia. The
    ancient forests of Southern Siberia are being logged for their increasingly expensive
    timber. These loggers, along with the poaching of tigers and their prey, have posed a
    serious threat to the survival of the tiger population. However, since 1992 the Wildlife
    Conservation Society (WCS) has been carrying out The Siberian Tiger Project, by
    attaching radio collars to the tigers so they can trace their movements and gather a
    wealth of information about their habits. In this way, the Russian government has been
    provided with invaluable support and advice.

    The `Tiger Response Team´, a special unit of the Russian government, takes active
    steps towards resolving the problems between tigers and humans. One aim is to keep
    tigers away from human settlements. The team use fireworks or even electrified dead
    animals to deter the tigers from approaching villages. Sometimes the tigers are captured
    and simply moved to other areas. If the animal is considered too dangerous, it may be
    taken to a zoo on the other side of the world. At least in a protected environment like
    this, scientists are able to study wild tigers in a way that they could not in their natural
    habitat. Also, captive breeding programmes are a way to increase tiger numbers; they
    can be used to introduce genetic variability into the wild tiger population.

    The WCS also consider the management of the tigers` prey essential to the programme.
    This requires the establishment of large areas of habitat for both the tigers and their prey
    to coexist. This can be achieved through properly managed wildlife tourism. Tourism
    can generate money and jobs for local people, as well as creating opportunities to
    conserve suitable land for tigers to live on. It is also an excellent way to educate locals
    and tourists in conservationist issues.

    There is no clear solution to saving the tiger, but there is still great pressure from
    conservation societies and environmental groups to ensure its survival. We will only be
    able to do this if we can find a balance between the need of people to earn a living with
    the need to preserve the tigers’ habitat.

    III Match a word in bold in the text with a synonym below.

    1 to catch = __________

    2 live in the same place = __________

    3 very old = ___________

    4 remote/far away = _____________

    5 most important = _______________

    6 to ban = _______________

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