...Siberian Tiger I. Introduction a. How I Became Interested b. Threats c. Groups Helping d. Chances of Survival II. History a. Name b. Habitat c. Stages of Life/Behavior III. Characteristics a. Physical Features b. Reproduction/Mating c. Population Trends IV. Challenges and Threats a. Poachers b. Natural Threats c. Human Activity V. Outlook a. Things Being Done To Conserve b. Groups Working On It and Challenges They Face c. What Can You Do To Help VI. Summary d. Is This Animal Expected To Survive e. What Are the Chances f. Remainder of remaining population On July 28, 2002, my family and I visited the Houston Zoo. As we walked looking at the different animals and exhibits, a group of Siberian tigers caught our attention. We were amazed at how large and beautiful they were. While admiring the tigers we were invited to attend an exhibit on the Siberian tiger. The exhibit was on the preservation of the Siberian tiger. During the exhibit there was a lecture given informing everyone on the life on the Siberian tiger. I learned that the Siberian tiger is considered critically endangered. There are many groups and organizations that are fighting for the preservation of the Siberian tiger. The Wildlife Conservation Society is one group fighting to save the Siberian tiger. Another group is the Siberian Tiger Conservation Association. I think that the Siberian tiger has no chance of its continued survival. Siberian tigers are also called...
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...Case Study on Breach of Director’s duties at Tiger Asia Company Business Law: Individual Assignment arsHaad Mustafa Case Study on Breach of Director’s duties at Tiger Asia Company Business Law: Individual Assignment arsHaad Mustafa 2014 2014 Tiger Asia and executives punished for market misconduct [Bill Hwang, founder of Tiger Asia, was banned from securities trading in Hong Kong for four years.] The Market Misconduct Tribunal yesterday said hedge fund Tiger Asia Management and two of its senior executives, Bill Hwang Sung-kook and Raymond Park, engaged in market misconduct and banned the company and Hwang from securities trading in the city for four years. Hwang, the founder of New York-based Tiger Asia, and Park, the head of trading, last year admitted to insider dealing in the shares of two mainland banks and were ordered by the court to pay more than HK$45 million to about 1,800 investors. In a statement announcing the tribunal's ruling, the Securities and Futures Commission said: "This heralds a sterner approach in respect of protective measures provided under our law. The SFC will track down and take action against wrong-doers wherever in the world they may lurk." The trading ban was shorter than the five-year "cold shoulder" order sought by the SFC. Park, who had suffered from a debilitating stroke, was not banned due to his incapacity. Tiger Asia reached a US$60 million settlement deal with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in December 2012 for...
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...Endangered Tigers Today wild tigers exist in Eastern Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bhutan, India and Nepal. In order to live in the wild, tigers need water to drink, animals to hunt, and vegetation in which to hide. As the mountains, jungles, forests, and long grasses that have long been home to tigers disappear, so too, do tigers. Agricultural expansion, timber cutting, new roads, human settlement, industrial expansion and hydroelectric dams push tigers into smaller and smaller areas of land. These small areas of forests are surrounded by rapidly growing and relatively poor human populations, including increasing numbers of illegal hunters. Tigers compete with an expanding human population and industry for land and food, many tigers are killed by poachers who sell the tiger’s body parts as ingredients for traditional Chinese medicines. If these trends continue, the wild tiger may evolve from being an endangered species and off the endangered species list to become an extinct species. Without wilderness, the wild tiger will not survive. If the world is not careful, one of the beautiful creatures on the planet will become extinct. Everyday more and more tigers are being slaughtered for their skin, bones, meat, and other organs to produce clothes, home décor, medicine, food and even alcohol. For example bones are soaked in alcohol to make wine, and ground up bone mixed with herbs is believed to relieve pain such as arthritis...
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...TIGERS The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to 3.38 m (11.1 ft) over curves and weighing up to 388.7 kg (857 lb) in the wild. Its most recognisable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar and snow leopard. Tigers are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. They are territorial and generally solitary but social animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey requirements. This, coupled with the fact that they are indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans. Tigers once ranged widely across Asia, from Turkey in the west to the eastern coast of Russia. Over the past 100 years, they have lost 93% of their historic range, and have been extirpated from southwest and central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and from large areas of Southeast and Eastern Asia. Today, they range from the Siberian taiga to open grasslands and tropical mangrove swamps. The remaining six tiger subspecies have been classified as endangered by IUCN. The global population in the wild is estimated to number between 3,062 and 3,948 individuals, down from around 100,000 at the start of the 20th century, with most remaining populations occurring in small pockets isolated from each...
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...The movie, “The Iron Road,” definitely provides viewers with a good understanding on why Chinese workers came to Canada and the challenges they faced when they arrived. The film begins with Little Tiger, a girl who lost both of her parents. Little Tiger mentions that her father went to go to work in gold mountain. Dressed as a boy so she can work and find a better living for herself, the movie follows Little Tiger as she ventures to gold mountain to try to find her missing father. China was a As James Nichol tries to hire people in China, it shows many of the reasons on why Chinese workers wanted to come to Canada. Throughout the movie, you can see Little Tiger encounter major conflict with one of the gangs in China. There were several gangs...
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...good article. Click here for more information. Page semi-protected Tiger From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Tigress" redirects here. For other uses, see Tiger (disambiguation) and Tigress (disambiguation). Tiger Temporal range: early Pleistocene–Recent PreЄЄOSDCPTJKPgN ↓ Tigress at Jim Corbett National Park.jpg A Bengal tiger (P. tigris tigris) Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: Panthera Species: P. tigris Binomial name Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies P. t. tigris P. t. corbetti P. t. jacksoni P. t. sumatrae P. t. altaica P. t. amoyensis †P. t. virgata †P. t. balica †P. t. sondaica †P. t. acutidens †P. t. trinilensis Tiger map.jpg Tiger's historic range in about 1850 (pale yellow) and in 2006 (in green).[2] Synonyms Felis tigris Linnaeus, 1758[3] Tigris striatus Severtzov, 1858 Tigris regalis Gray, 1867 The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to 3.38 m (11.1 ft) over curves and exceptionally weighing up to 388.7 kg (857 lb) in the wild. Its most recognisable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar and snow leopard. Tigers are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and...
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...these animals, which are often on the endangered list. According to Richard Farinato (in The Humane Society of the United States, www.hsus.org), wild and exotic animals are favorable vectors for diseases and parasites, often the outbreak of diseases cause the death of a mass of animals. If this situation is continue without any resolution, these animals might become extinct. Because there are no concerns to the needs of the animals, the livelihood will decrease rapidly, and eventually they might not be able to live on Earth. Recently the Indonesian government came up with a plan – rent out the tigers so as to raise fund to save Sumatran Tigers. Many doubt that whether the government is really saving the tigers or are just taking benefit from them. It was reported in the website, MSNBC that a deposit of one billion rupiah which is about $107,000 USD will be charged to rent a pair of tiger...
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...The men in World War ll had the nerves to go and fight with China, today not very many men would do that some were wanting to prove themselves and to have an adventure. There was a group called the Flying Tigers, they were from the United States and China together to fight the Japanese. A man named Claire Lee Chennault made a volunteer group called the Flying Tigers. He was a retired captain, he was the best fighter pilots until his hearing went bad in 1937. He had a wife and four kids and he was unemployed. Until one day an officer came to visit him, China just recently had been invaded by Japan and they needed an air force as soon as possible. Chennault was a one-man air force he shot down at least forty Japanese planes. However China was still loosing the war, mostly because Chennault was the ONLY man! He couldn’t make modern warplanes all by himself with his bare hands. The FDP wanted to help China, therefore of April 15, 1941 he secretly...
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...Hermes or BMW. Today, some Chinese brands are trying to conquer a piece of the enormous cake: China will represent 20% (27 billion dollars) of the worldwide luxury market by 2015,. Watches, cosmetics, jewelry, spirits or clothing: here nine brands Qeelin NE Tiger Moutai Shang Xia Longio Hongqi Chow tai fook Herborist Dorian Ho which start to emerge and which hope to regild the image of the “made in China”. The brand Shang Xia was created by the French group Hermes to conquer the Chinese market only. For that, Hermes recruited the designer Jiang Qiong, also chairman of the company whose Hermes owns 90%. With 60% foreign customers with 40% Chinese , Shang Xia as well sells cashmere coats , furniture with zitan (an invaluable wood), or tea sets. After being launched in 2010 in Shanghai, the brand opened in September its second shop in China World, the luxurious Beijing business district. Its turnover would rise to approximately two million euros for 2011. After having started in the sale of fur and leather products in 1992, the brand Tiger (for Northeast Tiger – Tiger of Siberia) turned gradually to the haute couture. Today, its founder Zhang Zhifeng fixed himself for objective to reinvent the Chinese traditional dress. Its styles use ancestral techniques of weaving and silk embroidery. Tiger quickly imposed its « dna » at the fashion shows: the brand for example organized the launch of China International Fashion Week at the end of 2011. It opened six shops, the majority in malls with...
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...‘The global economy has moved on from the Asian Tigers; the present and the future of the global economy now lie elsewhere’. To what extent to you agree with this statement. (40 marks) The global economy is the economy of the world, considered as the international exchange of goods and services expressed in monetary units. The Asian Tigers, (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea) were economically developing states during the 1960’s and 1970’s, and are a rare example of third-world-rapid-development - development that nobody could have predicted 50 years ago! However, does this mean that the global economy still relies on them in the same way? And can there be a practical application for these states in contemporary development, whilst the 20th century threat of emerging markets and financial crisis looms near? The Asian Tigers were highly considered the first wave of Newly Industrialised Countries (NIC’s), and experienced enormous growth in the 1960’s and 1970’s. They had many appealing factors that found favour with the larger Transnational Corporations (TNC’s) and as a result of which they became the bulk of the workforce for many foreign companies, such as Nike. Above all, their currencies were cheap, and therefore they easily attracted investment from foreign countries that could make more profit. And they were seen as less of a competition in relation to the newly industrialised areas, such as China, which were still using higher wages and therefore a more expensive...
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...Tigers Bobbie-Lynn Molina BIO 101 August 28, 2012 Kira Krend Tigers Tigers, the largest of all living cat species are recognized by its unique reddish-orange coat with black stripes. Although they are considered to be loners they are extremely territorial. Initially, there were nine known subspecies of tigers: Siberian, South China, Indo-Chinese, Sumatran, Bengal, Malayan, Balinese, Javan, and Persian. The Bali, Javan, and Persian tigers are extinct and the remainder of the subspecies is found on the endangered species list. Tigers have exceptional skills and can familiarize to their environment, but poaching and increase of their natural habitat threaten existence. Tiger’s physical attributes such as their body size, patterns of their stripes, and length of fur are characterized by the locale they live in. Most feline species come from a long line of adaptive and changing family history. Tigers have a massive muscular build, allowing them to apprehend and subdue their prey or get out of harms danger. A full-grown tiger can weigh as much as 650 pounds and up to 13 feet in length. Tiger’s backbones are flexible, which give them the ability of motion and allowing them to leap forward up to 33 feet at a time. The hind legs on the tiger are longer than the front so it helps with the ability of jumping. The paws of the tiger are well padded allowing it to walk quietly without...
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...The Bengal Tiger Introduction Perhaps there is no more famous of a Bengal tiger (Panthera Tigris Tigris) than Rudyard Kipling’s Shere Khan. Known as the dominant and feared antagonist in The Jungle Book that was to be not only feared, but respected throughout the entire jungle. Although it’s habitat is in India, the Bengal tiger has commanded so much respect that even an American professional football team’s logo uses the Bengal as their official mascot (Cincinnati Bengals). The problem is that perhaps that respect has dwindled since the time of The Jungle Book and the inception of the Cincinnati Bengals in 1966. While there are on-going efforts to save this incredible big cat, their status is still listed as Endangered. Habitat and Characteristics Bengal tigers (also known as Royal Bengal tiger or Indian tigers) are commonly found in the subcontinent of India and in dense forests, mangrove swamps, and jungles throughout the subcontinent and in some areas in China and Nepal. While most are orange, black, and white, there are some Bengal tigers that are reported to have an all white coloration (animalplanet.com) and they are only known species of tiger to be all white. Average length for these special tigers at around 10 feet. While it is considered to be the second largest tiger in the world (Siberian or Amur tiger is larger), it is sometimes claimed to be the largest tiger on average (a-z-animals.com). Although they weigh between 300-600 pounds and with an average weight...
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...they drove the dog to the nearest animal shelter. The dog survived and adopted by a lady that has 140 acres of land and raised $1,400 dollars to build a fence around her yard. The case is still not close yet. Life cycle of abusers age and genders are mostly male’s age range from 31-40 years. The graph on pet-abuse.com shows that 9,977 males and 3,201 females were accuse of abusing animals. Males abuse 6,776 more animals then women do. You can find all of these statistics, graphs, and cases near you on pet-abuse.com. There is a lot of wildlife animal abuse in the World. All tiger subspecies put together currently amount to around 3,200 endangered tigers remaining in the wild. Tigers are being killed for their pelts, meat and body parts. Their body parts are used for Chinese medicine for a range of uses, including pain killers. A bowl of tiger penis soup goes for $320, a pair of eyes for $170 and powdered tiger...
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...Iron Road Film Review Iron is a Canada and China film (2009) that is written by Barry Pearson and Raymond storey in 2009. The film was directed by David Wu. The starring are Sun Li, Sam Neill, Luke Macfarlane, Charlotte Sullivan and Peter O’Toole. Iron Road is romantic and upset story which is about Chinese workers were helped to build the Chadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. And this drama gives a face to the nameless and voiceless that perished en mass in history. Iron Road follows the journey, in 1882; James Nichol went to Hong Kong to check on the company’s recruitment of Chinese laborers to work on the railroad's construction. One of the laborers James brings back was an orphan boy named Little Tiger, who actually was a young woman and a good blasting worker. She was desperate to make it to Canada to find her missing father. Personally, Little Tiger falls in love with James, an unforbidden love even if she exposes her true identity to him because of their race differences. Ultimately, Little Tiger bring her father’s ashes back to China and leaves the railway construction camp; also she had a profound effect on her new Canadian friend. The background music throughout the film gives the viewer a sad feeling. It indicates how strong James and little tigers relationship are. I think that the instrumental sound effects were really cool when little tiger uses explosives to destroy the mine. The sounds give the audience a realistic feeling. The theme of the film is racism...
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...Tiger Beer Country specific channel & Distribution network Tiger beer is the flagship brand of Asia Pacific Breweries and is brewed in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and China. The 5% above bottled pale lager was launched in 1932 and is available in over 60 countries worldwide across Europe, USA, Latin America, Australia and the Middle East. Tiger held its own in the premium segment, maintaining its volume despite strong competition. Through a focused distribution strategy to target youths. Tiger Draft is now the No. 1 draft beer in Shanghai. Industry, Sector market select and Market condition (Opportunities and Threats in MC) Industry :Beverages Sector market selected :Food and beverages Opportunities : The total beer market value had a tendency to be increased every year because: (1) The rate of economic growth was increased in compliance with the economic boom, (2) Thai people liked to drink, (3) Due to the nature of consumers’ behavior, new beers were introduced increasingly and the consumers liked to try them at a cheap price, (4) Liberalization of liquors created broader scope of opportunity for distributing beers to the Indochina region and foreign countries, and (5) Progressive telecommunication allowed consumers to receive rapid and precise information and to recognize new beers. Threats: Free Trade Agreements and other market factors have gradually allowed more players in, which has eroded its market share. It is perceived...
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