With the appearance of this behemoth, a whirlwind rolled up on the ground. Her skin color and fur floated away like a phantom. This is the largest national natural park in India. A hungry Bengal tigress jumped out of the thick grass and began to hunt. In order to feed its 330-pound body, it must prey on at least one deer, a wild boar or other large animals every week. Its solid shoulders and powerful forelimbs can knock down a bison weighing 1300 pounds, and its dagger-like teeth can kill its prey quickly. The Bengal tigress stayed on the park path for only a short time, and then suddenly disappeared into the jungle. Faced with this situation, Professor Ullas Kahlan, an Indian biologist of the new york Wildlife Conservation Association, said with great emotion: "Seeing a tiger is like dreaming." In fact, this Asian behemoth is disappearing rapidly, much faster than any mammal except rhinoceros. Even in some nature reserves, there are few animals left because of repeated illegal poaching and various threats from human beings. Take India's largest national natural park as an example. About 6,000 Indians have lived in this 260-square-mile land for a long time, and around it, there are more than 250 villages, large and small, with tens of thousands of people. People are always competing with tigers for scarce living resources, which is a disaster for tigers. What's more, some lawless people try their best to kill tigers, even young tigers, in order to get rich on the black market. If it weren't for more than 250 security guards patrolling around the clock to protect the survival of tigers, I'm afraid the few tigers here would have been extinct long ago. It is estimated that there are no more than 5000 ~ 7500 tigers living on the earth at present, and their number has decreased by 95% in this century. If effective measures are not taken immediately, I am afraid that in the near future, the tiger, a precious animal that has been with human beings for many years, can only be seen in zoos or circus performances. Human culture about tigers has a long history. On the amur river, Soviet archaeologists discovered a 6000-year-old tiger sculpture, which proved that people at that time regarded it as an idol. In Indian mythology, the goddess Degas always rides a tiger. Zhang Daoling, the founder of Taoism in China, also regards the shape of a tiger as a mascot to ward off evil spirits and live forever. If modern Asian culture no longer regards the tiger as the supreme, many people still regard it as a panacea for all diseases. Traditional medicine believes that almost every part of tiger's body has precious medical value. It is believed that taking tiger bones can treat rheumatism and make people live longer, tiger whiskers can enhance physical strength, and drinks soaked with tiger penis can improve people's sexual function. In Asia, with the sharp increase of national income, people can afford to take tiger medicine. However, with the gradual decrease of tiger sources, the price of tigers is rising day by day, which makes tiger poaching more attractive. Some people, in order to get rich, do not hesitate to take risks and take various measures to kill tigers crazily and cruelly. The temptation from the black market is so great that no force, including public opinion, political pressure and even police intervention, seems to be able to save the endangered tiger. There are a large number of tigers in Bali, and they have lived and multiplied here for many years. However, due to the serious reduction of food and habitat on which they depend since this century, and the killing of humans, the tigers in this place were completely extinct as early as 40 years ago. There are many such examples. Since India has more than half of the total number of tigers in the world, the government has put forward a series of protection measures. Nevertheless, in the past five years, the number of tigers in China 2 1 nature reserve has decreased by 20%. In the world-famous massacres from 1989 to 1992, more than 20 tigers were killed by poachers in a nature park in India alone. Although there are more than 60 security guards patrolling the park day and night, it is of no help. Just a few years ago, India was widely regarded as a successful model for protecting tigers. After centuries of crazy hunting of tigers and ruthless destruction of forest resources, many species are on the verge of extinction. The Indian government put forward measures to protect tigers in 1973. Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, attached great importance to this, personally presided over the formulation of tiger protection plans, promulgated tiger protection regulations, and established a large-scale and heavily guarded protection network throughout the country. By 1980, the number of tigers seems to have increased. Therefore, a main person in charge of this project once declared: "In India, tigers will never be in danger of extinction." However, in some tiger reserves, people are blindly optimistic and ignore all kinds of potential dangers and signals. With the continuous growth of population, people are increasingly encroaching on the habitat of tigers, but there is no regulation to interfere. Many kinds of rare wild animals have been living and reproducing carefree in the imagination of some people concerned. The most obvious example is that people do not pay enough attention to the increasingly hot black market and fail to take effective measures to stop it in time. On the black market, the tiger trade has always existed. But around 1980, this trade does not seem to pose an obvious threat to the extinction of tigers. However, in the late 1980s, with the depletion of tiger bone reserves, people began to realize the serious consequences of killing tigers. Indian authorities arrested a tiger poacher for the first time in 1986 and seized a big bag of tiger bones from him on the spot. According to this clue, a tiger body was excavated in a nature park, but almost all the tiger bones were gone. Since then, there have been reports about the sale of tiger bones all over the country. In response to the increasingly rampant criminal activities, the Indian government has organized a large-scale surprise encirclement and suppression operation since August 1993. Once, a large hunting and selling gang in New Delhi was destroyed, and 6 16 Jin of tiger bones (equivalent to the total bones of 20 tigers) and 8 tiger skins were collected. In this operation, it was also found that many families actually make a living by illegally hunting and selling wild animals. There, many precious wild animals were stripped of their fur, their precious organs were dried and packaged, their bones were sealed after cleaning and bleaching, and then sold as an opportunity. A tiger skin can fetch at least $654.38+500,000 on the black market. Some wealthy Arab businessmen often come to buy them and then smuggle them to other parts of the world through various channels. According to Indian officials, when poaching was rampant, more than 90 tigers were killed in just four months. The official who has been engaged in tiger protection for a long time said with great regret: "I have made great efforts and done a lot of work to protect the survival of tigers, but now it seems that my years of efforts will be wasted." At present, the voice of protecting tigers in the world is getting stronger and stronger, and many related organizations have been established to protect the survival of wild tigers and supervise illegal hunting. Although under the great international pressure, the killing and selling of tigers have been curbed to a certain extent, the survival of tigers is still in a dilemma. Because with the rapid increase of the world population and the expansion of human activities, the already narrow habitat of tigers has become smaller and smaller, and there are few foods available to satisfy hunger. An expert said: "human hunting is a threat to the survival of tigers, but population growth is also a chronic threat." Humans and tigers have lived together on this earth for thousands of years. It should be said that until today, the living environment of the earth is still suitable for tigers, and tigers are constantly adjusting themselves to be more suitable for this living environment. But the survival of tigers will eventually conflict with human beings, and it turns out that human beings are more powerful killers in nature. If the tiger is extinct because of us, what should we think of this? An expert put it this way: "What can we humans save? Can we save ourselves? " In any case, we should take action and take urgent measures to protect nature and protect every tiger and every precious wild animal, because this is also for ourselves.