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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Tiger Talk
verfasst von : Bruce Rich
Erschienen in: Foreclosing the Future
Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
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Abstract
in saint petersburg it was the most glamorous event in memory, set in an imposing nineteenth-century Tsarist palace. Supermodel Naomi Campbell attended with her billionaire companion, real estate oligarch Vladislav Doronin (known as “the Donald Trump of Russia”). Hollywood megastar Leonardo DiCaprio’s first two attempted airplane flights to Russia encountered emergency delays; he scrambled to find other connections before arriving many hours late. Harrison Ford called in via videoconference. What lured them? They and hundreds of wildlife specialists and government officials were gathering in the former Russian imperial capital in November 2010 at a summit to save the world’s tigers. Indeed, only 3,200 tigers remain alive in the wild, down from over 100,000 a century ago. In the first decade of the twenty-first century alone, the world tiger population declined by 40 percent.1 If the tigers were ever going to be saved, it was now or never.