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Tiger Tiger Fading Bright Part 6
The Hunter in the Red PVC Cap is still giving an impromptu rock and roll guitar rendition on his knee. Don't miss that.

the situation on the Tiger front has been grim for quite sometime. The Planet Earth is slowly relinquising its flora and fauna as humankind expands in uncontrollable numbers and fritters away Nature and its resources in a headlong dive to extinction for almost all.

Continuing the series

Tiger Tiger, Fading Bright !
The tigers in India are facing the toughest odds and are on the brink of being wiped out. There is a big industry based on tiger claws and bones etc that drives up the demand for the killing of this beautiful beast.

Men will buy a enlargement (is enhancement the right choice of word ?) of libido anytime anywhere but Chinese men will pay top dollars for tiger remains to increase theirs.

If you wonder why all the grand conservation efforts to save the tiger are failing, go no further then the politics of funding tiger conservation. It has been known for years that it is allegedly a big sham with mega bucks and mega publicity but almost nil results.

If you have the time it would be interesting to read some interesting thoughts and the current day reality ( The link is now dead as Aditya Singh has closed that blog, However you can see his work at
dickysingh.com/
on the tigers in an exchange between Thatzme and Aditya Singh from Rajasthan. This is not possible now... as the content has since then vanished in the great digital morass.

One can only hope that one sees a tiger in the wild in one's life time as the future generation may not have that privilege anytime soon. So if you are young and in India, head out and go see the elusive tiger before it is too late.

India has only 1150 - 1600 tigers that are available in the wild as per the Minister of Environment Jairam Ramesh.

Pervez 183A in one of his earlier comments on this series had mentioned >>>

"why don't the Chinese just try Viagra...???...it might make them dance on one leg...!!!"
Will Viagra be the Saviour of the Indian Tiger ?

This is an enactment of the situation at a Kerala street show during Onam in Thrippunithra near Cochin on the Atthachamayam day.

DSC_0843 jpeg via ACR

Taken on: August 17, 2007

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Sets appears in: • Kerala • Attachamyam Tripunithra

Groups appears in: • Body painted or Costumed Men

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