How Do You Feel About The Tigers In Your Neighborhood? A New Study Maps Attitudes
Bengal Tiger Muhammad Mahdi Karim, used with a GNU Free Documentation License Though everyone in surveyed Nepal towns lives equally close to tigers, a survey shows different groups feel very differently about the endangered animals nearby. In Nepal, what you think about the local tigers depends a lot on what part of town you live in, according to a new survey. The Chitwan National Park in Nepal is an important forest for tigers. It's one of the only areas in the world that is able to support more than 25 breeding females. There may be as few as 3,200 tigers living in the wild around the world today; in 1970, the tiger population was more than 10 times that. How people living near tigers feel about the animals is a good predictor of whether they'll follow laws aimed at conserving tigers, so a group of American and Nepalese researchers wanted to check in...