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PEKANBARU, Indonesia, May 11, 2024 (AFP) – A man has been found dead in western Indonesia after a suspected attack by a Sumatran tiger authorities were still hunting, a local official said Saturday, the latest case of conflict between humans and the critically endangered species. There are only several hundred tigers on the western island of Sumatra left in the wild and they are often targeted by poachers for their body parts, while rampant deforestation […]
By Rebecca BRYAN LOS ANGELES, Feb 16, 2024 (AFP) – Golf superstar Tiger Woods withdrew in the second round of the Genesis Invitational because of illness on Friday in the latest setback for the 15-time major champion. The US PGA Tour said Woods pulled out after hitting his tee shot at the seventh hole because of illness. Woods’s longtime business partner Rob McNamara said Woods had felt “flu-like symptoms” on Thursday night. “Woke up this […]
by Linnea Pedersen Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Ask any pet owner if their beloved companion has a personality and you’ll most often get an emphatic “yes”. But now tiger researchers can nod along too — a study published Wednesday reveals that the world’s largest felines have individual character traits. The behaviour of the 248 Siberian tigers observed through a personality test showed that the endangered cats had unique traits influencing both their success […]
Athens, Greece (AFP) — Greece’s leading animal park on Wednesday said it had recovered a rare white tiger cub found abandoned on a nearby street earlier this week. Attica Zoological Park outside Athens said the four-month-old female cub, which was found beneath a garbage bin near the premises, was paralysed from the waist down. “No one knows where it came from or how it got here,” park founder Jean Jacques Lesueur told Proto Thema daily, […]
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) — A Sumatran tiger attacked and injured two farmers in a small Indonesian town Wednesday, the second such attack in days, as officials vowed to capture the big cat or cats responsible. The latest attack took place in a protected forest reserve in Aceh province — which sits on the the northern tip of Sumatra island, in the country’s west — at about 2 am (2100 GMT Tuesday). Sumatran tigers — […]
by Andrew MARSZAL Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Tiger Woods suffered serious injuries to both legs as his car flew off the road and flipped several times Tuesday near Los Angeles in a crash he was “very fortunate” to survive, law enforcement officials who found the US golf legend said. Woods did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the early-morning incident, and underwent surgery […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam, one of Asia’s biggest consumers of wildlife products, has suspended all imports of wild animal species “dead or alive” and vowed to “eliminate” illegal markets across the country. The directive signed by the leader of the Communist country follows an international scandal over the sale of wildlife, which has been blamed as the origin of the coronavirus pandemic in neighbouring China. It is a major victory for conservation groups who […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Conservationists have warned a sudden change in Myanmar’s law allowing the commercial farming of tigers, pangolins and other endangered species risks further fuelling demand in China for rare wildlife products. The Southeast Asian nation is already a hub for the illegal trafficking of wildlife, a trade driven by demand from neighbouring China and worth an estimated $20 billion worldwide. In June, Myanmar’s Forest Department quietly gave the green light to private […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo has tested positive for COVID-19, the institution said Sunday, and is believed to have contracted the virus from a caretaker who was asymptomatic at the time. The four-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia along with her sister Azul, two Amur tigers and three African lions all developed dry coughs and are expected to fully recover, the Wildlife Conservation Society that runs the city’s […]
TAMPA, United States (AFP) — Six different sub-species of tigers exist today, scientists confirmed Thursday, amid hopes the findings will boost efforts to save the fewer than 4,000 free-range big cats that remain in the world. The six include the Bengal tiger, Amur tiger, South China tiger, Sumatran tiger, Indochinese tiger and Malayan tiger, said the report in the journal Current Biology. Three other tiger subspecies have already gone extinct: the Caspian, Javan and Bali […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A Thai zoo has sparked outrage after a video of staff repeatedly prodding a tiger to elicit roars for tourist photos went viral, renewing criticism of the kingdom’s notorious animal tourism industry. The clip, which has garnered more than one million views since it was posted on Monday, shows the Pattaya zoo attendant jabbing the chained animal in the face with a stick as tourists take turns posing with or sitting […]
JILIN, China (Reuters) – Siberian tigers and Amur leopards are wild animals that are rarely seen, even in pictures. But with infrared cameras, more and more live images of these rare wild beasts are seen by the general public in northeast China’s Jilin Province. “When we first installed these cameras in 2013, we were just lucky enough to capture the image of tigers once a year. Now we tour these cameras every two months and we […]
