Hope for tigers?

"Over the past century, tiger numbers have dropped from about 100,000 to about 4,000 tigers in the wild today. And over the past decade, there has been a 40% decline, with conservationists warning that some populations were expected to disappear completely within 20 years unless urgent action was taken."

This isn't the first time that I've written about tigers, a conservation failure story that makes my heart break every time I read anything about it. Our international systems have clearly failed the tigers, from conservation to enforcement to eliminating demand. Do the meetings since the end of 2010 represent a corner that we've turned as an international community? Or is it more talk that will lead nowhere? Only time will tell, but unfortunately the 4000 wild tigers left don't have much time left. Will we let these majestic animals disappear? Will we be responsible for their extinction? Full BBC article here.