A Bengal tiger (
Panthera tigris tigris) mother interacts with her cub in the Ranthambhore National Park in Rajasthan, India. James Warwick/Getty Images
More than 100,000 tigers ranged across Asia a century ago, from the Indian subcontinent to the Russian Far East. Today they are endangered, with only about 4,000 tigers left in the wild. The greatest threats they face are habitat loss and degradation, illegal hunting and declines in their prey.
Thanks to focused conservation efforts, tiger numbers have rebounded in some parts of their range. In Nepal, for example, the wild tiger population has nearly doubled from 121 in 2009 to 235 in 2018. But a road-building boom in Asia could undo this progress.
GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist in Asia theconversation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theconversation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Supreme Court’s scathing judgment notwithstanding, Nepal’s PM KP Oli has prorogued the House a second time
After the Supreme Court of Nepal on February 23 overturned Prime Minister (PM) KP Oli’s decision to dissolve Parliament, he prorogued the House session on Monday afternoon.
A two-year power struggle between Oli and his bête noire, revolutionary leader Prachanda, has ended in a climactic anti-climax with Oli providentially keeping his chair. Witness the events in the last six months: Oli dumped the Prachanda-Madhav Nepal group, ditched the Chinese by refusing to step down as the PM, dissolved Parliament, ordered elections and reinstated himself as the PM not caretaker of a revived Government, insisting that it was business as usual. Except that the quality of governance had declined further through rule by ordinances, boosted by the party faithful President Bidhya Devi Bhandari.
Two National Investigation Department staffers killed in Bara motorcycle accident thehimalayantimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehimalayantimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Photo Shows Kind Police Officer Sitting on Floor With Man in Mental Health Crisis in Gas Station
Two Maryland police officers are being praised for their kindness after responding to a call from a gas station. A man believed to be having a mental healthcrisis was met with compassion as the officers took time to calm him down and de-escalate the situation.
“Not everyday situation you have to arrest somebody, right?” Hyattsville officer Edgar Andrickson-Franco told NBC. “That’s not our job. Our job is to help.”
Andrickson-Franco and officer Mancini Gaskill responded to the call from Sunoco gas station on Hyattsville’s East West Highway on March 13.