Siberian tiger rescued from poacher's snare
(MARCH 9, 2004) Scientists from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups working in the Russian Far East released a Siberian tiger last week, after rescuing it from a snare set out by poachers. ...The eight-to-10-year-old male tiger, estimated to weigh almost 400 pounds, was discovered by two Russian students hiking in the woods after they heard it roaring in distress.....If you think there's no question that reserves are great for .wildlife, think again. Spain's Donana National Park is such a .draw to poachers that there are fewer badgers just inside the .reserve than in the area just outside it, according to new .research in the February issue of Conservation Biology. . ."The story of badger conservation in Donana is probably a .very good example of what is go.... . Everyone knows that poachers can decimate animals but they . can also have considerable effects on plants, according to . new research presented in the February issue of Conservation . Biology. . . "Poachers are nearly ubiquitous in the Neotropics," says . Joseph Wright of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute . in Balboa, Panama. "They are reducing the abundance of forest . mammals v...