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[The Abominable Snowman]

South China tigers, among the rarest of the five remaining tiger subspecies, are on the verge of extinction in the wild with less than 30 remaining, Xinhua news agency said on Friday, citing a recent survey.

Scientists from the State Forestry Administration of China and the World Nature Fund conducted the study of the wild tigers, most of which are scattered on mountains along the borders of Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong provinces in south China, Xinhua said.

The survey's findings were released at a symposium on South China tigers held in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province.

Xinhua said China had 66 South China tigers raised in 19 zoos but the animals are all offspring of six wild tigers seized in 1956.

The South China tiger, also known as the Chinese tiger, is native to southern China and used to be found in mountain forests in the country's south, east, center and southwest.

But war, hunting and environmental deterioration over the past century has pushed the species to the verge of extinction and it is listed on the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Red List of endangered species.

International experts predict tigers will disappear by 2010 if they are not protected, Xinhua said. To help save the big cats, China would send five to 10 South China tigers to South Africa to help re-acquaint them with the ways of the wild.

The Chinese tigers and their offspring would be returned to China in time for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Xinhua said.

The other four tiger subspecies are the Siberian, Bengal, Indochinese and Sumatran tigers.

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[Ill Saint]

It's pretty amazing (and extremely sad) how easily we wipe out and / or destroy a whole animal / plant species. We're such a horrible species. Destructive and utterly self-serving.

 

[belgurdo]

Destructive and utterly self-serving.

Damn straight!

 

[bishoptl]

If movies have taught me anything, it's that cloning more of these magnificent animals from a hair or a few drops of blood is simplicity itself. You're getting all worked up for nothing.

 

[belgurdo]

If movies have taught me anything, it's that cloning more of these magnificent animals from a hair or a few drops of blood is simplicity itself. You're getting all worked up for nothing.

Make sure to use frog DNA so that they can grow sexual organs when needed

 

[Smiles and Cries]

no one is crying over the Haitian Cockroach

 

[Escape Goat]

What has the Chinese Tiger done for me lately?

 

[etiolate]

Crouched?

 

[Smiles and Cries]

We need to find some Dragon DNA I would love to see them back on earth

 

[Hooker]

Magnificent animal

 

[Saturnman]

Perfecting cloning technology would come in handy in this case.

 

[Snufkin]

Make sure to use frog DNA so that they can grow sexual organs when needed

While we're at it we may as well modify the males to have multiple sexual organs, then those chinese pharmacists can simply harvest them without killing the poor beast, thus saving the powdered Tiger penis market for the limp-dicks of asia and beyond!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

While we're at it we may as well modify the males to have multiple sexual organs, then those chinese pharmacists can simply harvest them without killing the poor beast, thus saving the powdered Tiger penis market for the limp-dicks of asia and beyond!

They have that kind of problems how the hell did they ever multiply to become a billion people?

 

[Gek54]

They have that kind of problems how the hell did they ever multiply to become a billion people?

:lol

Killing a tiger should be a death sentence. Owning tiger products should be cuase for cutting off a hand.

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

I say let them die. It's sadder to preserve(clone) an animal so we can feel self righteous in preserving an animal artificially than to have been the ones to kill them off in the first place. Why would we clone them? So we can ride our on nuts on how perfectly we've managed to copy mother nature, or to revel how magnificient these man made creatures are? Maybe to cage some more of them, hell maybe we'll clone them, then skin them! You know for valuable expensive rugs, that sit next to the diamond encrusted coffee tables.



Fuck preserving species, let's get the ball rolling on these god damn jackalopes!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

1 Billion plus people?

limp penis, jumping sperm?

 

[Gek54]

Fuckin Jackalopes, This bastards will just run right in front of me at the last second and every time I run over one I have to buy a new tire.

 

[Minotauro]

I say let them die. It's sadder to preserve(clone) an animal so we can feel self righteous in preserving an animal artificially than to have been the ones to kill them off in the first place. Why would we clone them? So we can ride our on nuts on how perfectly we've managed to copy mother nature, or to revel how magnificient these man made creatures are? Maybe to cage some more of them, hell maybe we'll clone them, then skin them! You know for valuable expensive rugs, that sit next to the diamond encrusted coffee tables.



Fuck preserving species, let's get the ball rolling on these god damn jackalopes!

IAWTP

I've always enjoyed George Carlin's take on this whole issue:

http://faculty.chi.devry.edu/thart/PLANET.html

 

[bishoptl]

They have that kind of problems how the hell did they ever multiply to become a billion people?

oh no :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Manabanana]

Humans are like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. We're a scourge on the Earth. We're going to kill everything then kill ourselves. The world will start over with only radioactive cockroaches and bigfoot who will join forces to create a species of furry cockroaches with huge radioactive feet who will assemble into godless heathen tribes that will colonize the icy remains of our world, eternally trapped in a nuclear winter.

 

[Cimarron]

I say they need to get as many samples as there DNA asap. Who knows what scientific miracles that can be harvested from their genome. In an age of cloning permanent extiction is not needed. Hell lets clone a wooly mammoth and some neanderthals if we have enough gene samples.

 

[Escape Goat]

How come everyone judges humans at their worst and never at their best?

 

[Gek54]

How come everyone judges humans at their worst and never at their best?

You should be a Federal Judge!

 

[DonasaurusRex]

yes and then we can create a race of super humanoids that learn they are superior in every way that in turn own us and make us be the slaves while they get fat watching re runs of Seinfeld and Family Guy.

 

[Escape Goat]

You should be a Federal Judge!

Criminal justice is one thing. Passing judgement on an entire species is another.

 

[Lemurnator]

This thread is teh funneh.

:lol

Poor tigers.

 

[DarthWoo]

Humans are like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. We're a scourge on the Earth. We're going to kill everything then kill ourselves. The world will start over with only radioactive cockroaches and bigfoot who will join forces to create a species of furry cockroaches with huge radioactive feet who will assemble into godless heathen tribes that will colonize the icy remains of our world, eternally trapped in a nuclear winter.

Perhaps our ancestral primordial ooze was carried along with the meteor, and we really are just here to make sure its job gets finished?

 

[Xenon]

"There can be only one!"

 

[Fresh Prince]

Perhaps our ancestral primordial ooze was carried along with the meteor, and we really are just here to make sure its job gets finished?

Where the hell is Lynx?

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

The journalists just like to stay in their hotel rooms and report on rumors. Sure we hear about the species that go extinct, but noone ever reports the thousands of species humans create each year.

 

[Vennt]

How come everyone judges humans at their worst and never at their best?

Majority rule - tips the balance on the whole for the worst, unfortunately.

See tonights news for example, or any nights - For every ten "Oh fuck humans are stupid/aggressive/fucking things up again" stories you may get treated to maybe one or two "And finally..." lighten-up-the-mood stories.

It's hard not to see ourselves in parasitic form when there are times when that is what best describes us, I mean do you see us as having a symbiotic relationship with our environment? I don't.

Mind you, I stopped caring, I understand greens & their like, I'm just far to apathetic to care. - Blame J. Mascis, I do