Reflective Journal 1

I learnt that it was still legal for people in India to hunt tigers to export skins in recent 1970s and India contains 60% of the world's tigers. Tiger are the most magnificent, rare, endangered charismatic and powerful among all the cats and it is recorded that more than 3,000 tigers lost their lives to trophy hunter which most are being tourists from 1950s to early 1960s. Hence, Project Tiger launched on the 1st April 1973 at Corbett National Park and it's aims were to ensure maintenance of a viable population of tigers in India for scientific, economic, cultural and ecological values, preserve, for all times, areas of such biological importance as a national heritage for the benefit, education and enjoyment of the people, early development.
With the co-operation of the Indian Government, Project Tiger initially established a reserves, across different ecosystems which is the population community. These were devoted specifically to saving the tiger and eliminating those factors which were contributing to the decline of the tiger:
1. Habitat destruction.
2. Disturbance.
3. Loss of prey.
4. Hunting.
5. Competition with local villagers and animals

For the Iguanas side, I had learnt that all iguanas have strong jaws, long tails and strong legs with long, sharp claws, and the iguana family includes about 30 different species. The iguanas in West Indian (including the iguanas in the Bahamas) are a very special group of iguanas. They are among the most endangered of the world’s lizards and their habitats are also being destroyed for housing or farming. People have also introduced foreign animals to island or forest which iguanas lived on, and eat them up which destroys their habitat even further more.

It was really very shocking to me when I was doing my research because I had never knew that it was still legal for people in India to hunt tiger in 1970s.
I think that although Tigers may not be considered good to human beings in some ways as they are a type of ferocious animals which may kill and eat up people but they are also living things and they also need a comfortable place for their homes. It is also the time we should stop on the actions of abusing and neglecting on the Tigers and Iguanas.

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Taken from http://www.wildlife-tour-india.com/indian-wildlife/tiger-in-india.html
http://www.ardastra.com/iguanainfo.html