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Sunday, October 4, 2009

International Tiger Year to be launched on Valentine's day

With the objective of spreading awareness about conservation of forests and wildlife in them, the forest ministry has decided to celebrate international year of the tiger starting Valentine's day in 2010 culminating into the World Tiger meet at Ranthambore in Nov next year. With Chinese demand for tiger parts in the danger of peaking next year on account of the Chinese year of the tiger, it might be a good time to bring the issue of loosing tigers into international limelight.

International Year of the Tiger to kick off on V-Day: Ramesh