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We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

Save India's Bengal Tigers that Face Imminent Extinction!

Target: H.H.S. Viswanathan, Consul General, Consulate General of India
Sponsor: Richard Birchard
  • Signatures: 4,327
  • Goal: 2,999
  • Deadline: 11-11-2002
H.H.S. Viswanathan, Consulate General of India

India today currently has the largest wild tiger population remaining in the world. Yet, despite world-renowned reserves to protect the Royal Bengal tiger from extinction, their numbers are slipping away.


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4,331 10:35 pm PST, Nov 8 Ms. Anonymous    
4,330 4:59 pm PST, Nov 4   Chelsea Howe North Carolina I would really like to help save the tigers, they are a beautiful animals and they should be saved before we wake up one morning and find they are gone and we can no longer see them.
4,329 1:46 am PDT, Oct 27 Mrs. marilyn sass California  
4,328 6:47 pm PDT, Oct 26 Dr. JennyLynn Werner Arizona  
4,327 2:35 pm PDT, Oct 24 Ms. Love Animals Too New York  
4,326 7:23 am PDT, Oct 24 Ms. Sanjukta Das    
4,325 1:14 pm PDT, Oct 21 Ms. amala suman    
4,324 1:02 pm PDT, Oct 21   Juan José Castaño Márquez    
4,323 1:30 am PDT, Oct 21   Miss Jemima Cummings   God gave us the Earth and everything in it to look after. so far, we haven't been doing a very good job, have we? let's get this right!
4,322 3:28 am PDT, Oct 6 Mr. Roman van Alten    
4,321 11:19 pm PDT, Sep 27 Ms. Roopa Kumar   We as Human beings, the strongest living creature on earth, have no rights to destroy the other living creatures!! Let's all follow this -" Live and Let Live"!
4,320 11:10 am PDT, Sep 27 Ms. Carole Wesley    
4,319 12:03 am PDT, Sep 27 Ms. Brooke Bivens Mississippi  
4,318 1:32 am PDT, Sep 24 Mrs. Anonymous    
4,317 10:48 pm PDT, Sep 18   Anonymous   i have fallen in love with these creatures and i don't want them to become extinct so that's what i believe in
4,316 8:37 am PDT, Sep 10 Mr. Anonymous Illinois  
4,315 2:02 pm PDT, Sep 7 Ms. Rainey Black Nevada  
4,314 9:02 pm PDT, Sep 5 Ms. Anonymous    
4,313 3:03 pm PDT, Sep 3 Ms. Angel Brain   AWE, BEAUTY, MAGNIFICENT, RESPECT!!! TIME FOR CHANGE, HONOUR AND PROTECT THESE GOD GIVEN CREATURES!!!
4,312 2:04 pm PDT, Sep 3 Ms. Lisa Bannister   These beautiful animals must be protected
4,311 8:35 am PDT, Sep 3   Andrea Murphy    
4,310 12:40 pm PDT, Aug 31 Ms. Athena Gonzalez Alabama  
4,309 7:56 am PDT, Aug 27   Bronwyn Cook   I would like my kids one day to see the same thing i did how about you?
4,308 5:48 pm PDT, Aug 26 Ms. Micki Sievers Virginia  
4,307 4:22 pm PDT, Aug 25 Ms. Anonymous Michigan  
4,306 1:55 pm PDT, Aug 20 Ms. Jessica Koch New York  
4,305 10:27 am PDT, Jul 29   cheyenne cummings Colorado i believe tigers are peaceful and loving creatures and we are the cause for their endangerment o its up to us to save them
4,304 10:08 am PDT, Jul 26   Kathryn Krause Massachusetts To kill your tigers is to kill yourselves.
4,303 10:57 am PDT, Jul 21 Mr. samma sati    
4,302 4:07 am PDT, Jul 20 Mr. Nigel Sawyer Georgia  

Save India's Bengal Tigers that Face Imminent Extinction!

H.H.S. Viswanathan, Consulate General of India


The Royal Bengal tiger of India is one of just 5 remaining species of tiger in the world today. Their populations are declining at an alarming rate and are threatened with imminent extinction in the wild. These declines have continued despite the tiger being listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

All over India, key tiger areas are being destroyed for industrial concerns at the whim of politicians seeking to line their own pockets. The direct result is a country that loses an average of one tiger a day from its dwindling population to poaching for trade, habitat loss and prey decline.

By destroying the tigers' habitat, you are also destroying the environment that local people depend on for food and water. The tiger is a symbol of the overall health of India, its environment and its people. We are all together in this small world and it is critical to protect the environment now, before it is too late.


Each undersigned name represents 1 remaining tiger in your country today, and wishes to express deep disappointment with the Indian Ministry of the Environment and forest officials for their continuing failure to take appropriate efforts in the protection of the tiger.

To do nothing today, leaves us all fewer, if any, options for tomorrow.

Sincerely
the Undersigned.

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