Via Sepia Mutiny comes the sobering reminder that we as humans have an enormous impact (often negative) on the world we live in. Just a little over a century ago, there were 100,000 tigers in the wild; today, that number is less than 5000. SM points to an article in Time Asia which details the plight of the tiger in India. What’s most unfortunate is the point mentioned in the artcile and explained further in one of the comments to the article here: namely, that the tiger population is reaching a point (if it hasn’t blown past it already) where the population is too small to support long term health and proper evolution of the species… *sigh*. If you have ideas on ways that bloggers can make a difference, I’d recommend posting in the comments to the diary at Sepia Mutiny.
