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Tigers
Tigers are incredible animals, and instead of killing them, we should we working hard to preserve them, to make sure future generations will also have such an incredible animal to research. It wont just be us that will suffer if tigers die off. The wild has an enormous range of different animals, and if even one species become extinct, the Eco system and food chain could suffer severely. There was once 8 different subspecies of tigers, now there is only 5. This is a result of humans. We are destroying all of their habitat for space that we don't even need! And because we think that it looks bad. India once used to be the tigers kingdom, the people and the tiger lived in peace together. Until one tiger started killing people. This was most likely because the tiger was injured and couldn't catch its own food, so it turned to humans as a food source. So the people decided to call in a friend, and have the tiger killed. It would have been enough just to have this one tiger killed, but because of this one tiger, the then assumed all tigers were man eaters. So they killed all they could. There are other countries that kill all tigers, not because they have killed anyone, but simply because they think they are a nuisance. I think that what they are doing is incredibly stupid, because these people clearly haven't taken a step back, and realised what they are doing is wrong, and if they took the time to learn a bit about tigers, they would most likely not want to kill them. The other main reason tigers are on the brink of extinction, is poaching. Some people like to kill tigers and hang them up on their wall as a trophy. Others kill them for business. They sell them so that people can make ancient Chinese medicines, and also to make them into clothes. The tiger parts for medicines, have scientifically been proven to be able to substitute for another material, that works just as well. And the reason tiger skin is soled, is because the demand in store for it is very high.

I think tigers are extraordinary animals, and that they should be protected. It is all very simple, if the demand for tiger parts and tiger skin ends, and we, humans, stop destroying their homes, the tigers will survive, and all our kids, and their kids, will tigers, such an incredible animal, to learn about.