When people think of tigers, they think they are strong and dangerous. But now, the big animal is calling for our1.
There were once eight kinds of 2in the world,3three died out during last century. In the last 70 years, the number of Siberian tigers(东北虎) has gone from as many as 300 to somewhere418 and 22.
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) started a programme recently. It is about to put an end(结束) to tiger poaching(非法狩猎) and5wild tigers. China, together with 12 other countries, has joined in. The aim(目的) is to double (使.....加倍) the number of wild tigers in the next ten years. .
According to research by Chinese officers and the WWF, the Siberian tiger is already6of the world's most ”endangered(濒危的) animals. “ If the government doesn't take any action, it's quite7that there will be no more Siberian tigers in China in 10 to 20 years,” said Zhu Chunquan, director of the WWF's Beijing office. Wild animals such as the red deer, sika deer(梅花鹿) and wild boar(野猪) are the tigers' main food. There isn't enough8for wild tigers because of the hunting of these animals. So the9thing people can do is to save the animals which tigers eat.“ To protect the tigers, we need to call on more people to10eating and hunting wild animals.
