Tiger to return to Central Asia
14th April 2011
“This will be the first time that the tiger has returned to an area where it’s become completely extinct,” said Olga Pereladova, the head of WWF in Kazakhstan. “The tiger is a flagship species on top of the ecosystem, and to be able to introduce the tiger, we need to restore all the other species which used to be there.”
Okay, let me get this straight: The original tiger species is extinct, so it’s not a case of preserving a native species. And in order for tigers to flourish, they have to reintroduce numerous other species that aren’t there right now.
My question is: Why? And, more important: Who’s paying for all this.
I suspect that the answer to the second question is: Some country’s taxpayers.