Interpol, the international organization against crime, decided to add another theme to its already existing activities: Defense of the Tiger with the creation of project “Predator” which aims at coordinating police forces, custom forces and local and global organizations for protection of wildlife (essentially in South East Asia).

Thanks to L.Boucher for pointing me to the news.

A very nice documentary video from France 2 (in French, but with very nice pictures), about the Tiger (le tigre du Bengale) as can be found in South West of Nepal, in Terai.

Most of the video has been shot in Chitwan National Park and Bardia National Park.

Sometimes, you believe you missed a step. Sometimes, you think you should have stayed at home.

But, being a flightless bird, wandering into the tigers cage and start calling them names was a bad bad idea…

If you know where it comes from, feel free to inform me (I found the photos on a Russian with not much details).

This Canadian artist works on painted pictures whose realism is striking (most people often think they are photographs, at first) and it is quite pleasing to see the very natural and touching attitudes of most of the painted animals. See some of his big cats.

Denis Mayer Jr. web site

This happened in Turkey, in a zoo.

A tiger found a way to leave its cage to meet a neighboring lion. This was in Ankara zoo and the tiger thus demonstrated its superior strength. Or that the lion does not fight well when it is surprised napping after a meal.

There are still six tigers and two lions in the Ankara zoo.

Source: BBC.

Some species of mammals are clearly confronted with the immediate risk of extinction. And, when I shoot photos of some of these at the other end of the world, I am often shocked by the immense chance I have to be able to still see these animals free in the wild for the years they have left.

For example, cheetahs were submitted to a major event of reduction in genetics diversity during the last Ice Age (less than 10,000 animals fought for survival during thousands of years). Today, the enormous competition pressure brought by Man and “its civilization”, on top of the stark competition from other carnivorous mammals (like hyenas), will most certainly bring cheetah out of the African savannas in a few years (maybe less than 20 years).

Tigers are also in a nearly desperate situation today: The last wild animals are already living in relatively small Reserves where, even free in the wild, they have become tourism subjects without being fully protected from poaching or illegal culling.

This is the context when Frédéric Lepage created a series of TV documentaries about a few emblematic species (cheetah, orangutan, tiger, elephant, jaguar, polar bear): Extinctions

I strongly recommend your being in front of the TV (France 5, French TV channel), to watch the episode for Tiger, on Friday 6 August 2010 at 20h30.

Right! But it may not be a real one. Some Chinese people seem to find it nice to transform/disguise their dogs into other animals. Sometimes, it’s a panda, but here it is a fake tiger.

Source: Daily Mail.