Tropical Parks Fail to Protect Animals and Plants [Slide Show]

India's Supreme Court has temporarily banned tourism in tiger reserves . The problem? All those hotels and shops built within the protected areas for the tourists are cutting down on actual forest habitat for the endangered big cats. In addition, local governments have failed to create buffer zones of slightly less degraded forest around the parks to enable the rare tigers to thrive. [More]

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