Civil war endangers Burma`s ailing tigers
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The Asian Age
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New Delhi
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23 Jun 2012
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Efforts to stop Burma’s tigers being hunted to extinction are under threat from a civil war raging in a region home to the world’s biggest sanctuary for the endangered cats, experts warm.
The former junta in 2010 expanded the tiger reserve to about 22,000 square km, an area roughly the size of Israel, in the remote Hukaung Valley, where about 50-70 tigers are estimated to remain.
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