Tiger Trade Slashes Cats' Numbers

The numbers of tigers in the wild in Southeast Asia have dropped by more than 70 percent in a little more than a decade.


That’s the claim in a new report from the WWF. The organization says there were an estimated 12-hundred tigers in the Greater Mekong region during the last “Year of the Tiger” in 1998. Today,

The reason for the drop? WWF says the tiger crisis has developed because of deliberate and large-scale illegal hunting of tigers for body parts, mostly for use in traditional medicine