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Article: Tiger population declines to less than 100 in Myanmar
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 7, 2009
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Tiger population declines to less than 100 in Myanmar
YANGON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- The number of tigers taking sanctuary
in Myanmar's Hukuang Tiger Reserve has declined to less than 100
from 150 in the previous years, sources with the Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS) said on Wednesday.
The fall in the tiger population was attributed to the killing of
preys by hunters for human consumption or illegal trading in the
area, resulting in the scarcity of food for tigers as well as to the
use of tigers' bones and its body parts by medical practitioners in
producing traditional medicines, the sources said, adding that the
expansion of forest plantations have also made the tigers lost their ...