Deadly Poison Threat to Tigers

  

                      Poachers are stepping up their game to get a hold of these beautiful creatures for their skin and other valuable parts on the market. They have recently been targeting beautiful creatures at wildlife preserves and that has been keeping patrol on their feet. I am glad that patrol is kicking up their games because ever since I was little I have always loved Tigers and seeing what is happening to them is disappointing. Are there really people in this world that have the indecency to do this?

Then, to make it even worse they aren't even shooting them, they are poisoning them. Poachers have been setting up traps that have poisoned meat and once they eat it they are as good as dead. According to this article, the meat they are using was from an elephant that they killed for bait for these tigers. So now, not only are tigers being killed, but an elephant was killed for bait, and then on top of that, several other animals in this wildlife preserve had eaten the meat and they too died.

Only two of these poachers have been caught and they have been thrown in jail, but sadly this does not stop the others and they are still out there. This topic clearly relates to science because of the poisoned meat and the dying animals, but not so clearly it is also related to math. It is related to math because the patrol had to figure out how many tigers are dying and how many are being targeted at once. Seeing how indecent people are to other living things makes me ache inside, what about you?

                                                    Works Cited

Shukman, David. "Deadly poison threat to tigers." BBC. BBC. 12 Mar. 2013. Web. 19 Oct.                            2014

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21618346