Monday, March 06, 2006

The Dalai Lama rocks

Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri

The Dalai Lama has offered a lifeline to the endangered Indian Tiger.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, has thrown a lifeline to India's dwindling tiger population after an emotional appeal to outlaw the trade in animal skins provoked an extraordinary reaction in his homeland.

All over Tibet, there have been reports of people burning wild animal furs since the Dalai Lama, the Himalayan region's exiled god-king, made his appeal at a Buddhist prayer meeting in southern India in January.

Thousands of Tibetans attended the festival and many carried the Dalai Lama's words back to their Himalayan homeland.

Let's hope that the Dalai Lama's words will help stem the rising incidence of tiger poaching before all of these magnificent creatures are gone.

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