Bengal Tiger, Female Drinking, India Photographic Print
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Bengal (Indian) tigers are said to represent about half the tigers left in the wild worldwide. As various authorities give figures for Bengal tigers ranging from about 3000 to 5000 left, it’s obvious that all tigers are endangered. The main threats to the tiger are habitat loss and poaching.

Habitats are lost due to global warming and consequent rise in sea levels flooding the traditional ranges of coastal tigers, like those living on the delta of the River Ganges in India. Human activities also destroy habitat – farming, logging and just the piecemeal expansion of human settlements.

Perhaps one of the biggest threats is from poaching. There is trafficking, not only in tiger skins but also in their bones and body parts. These are used in traditional Chinese medicine in spite of some leaders of this discipline stating that tiger bones and body parts are not essential and other substances can be used instead.

Read more about the Bengal Tiger in the Wild.

For the very first time since I joined Squidoo, I’ve bought a lens. It’s about dolphins, one of my favourite animals, and it was transferred yesterday.

The transfer was so easy and quick which was a relief because I was expecting it to be time consuming and difficult. All I did yesterday was to remove the affiliate advertising. I haven’t replaced any of the personal affiliates with my own yet. I’ll do that later in the week or next week maybe.

Today I spent about four hours working on it. I updated some of the out of date news articles on there and added a lot more pictures – I got some good ones from Allposters.com. I don’t make many sales but the commission is between 25% to 30% so at least it’s a significant amount when a poster does sell. The main reason I use them, though, is that there are so many posters on such a huge variety of subjects, they are brilliant for illustrating web pages.

I took  the basic facts about dolphins out of the introduction and put them in their own module. I then wrote a proper introduction to the subject touching of some of the issues affecting dolphins and discussing our relationship with them.

I hope this lens is going to be successful because their conservation and protection is a subject about which I feel passionate. In fact, I’m passionate about conserving wildlife generally and, by that, I mean keeping them in their own natural habitats, not in a zoo or other artificial environment.

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