Indiscriminate hunting over the centuries has decimated India's tiger population from an estimated 40, 000 animals 100 ago to about 1, 700 today.
Aid sent so far - including boats, mobile phones and night vision binoculars - has been provided by the WWF's Tiger Conservation Programme.
Or so he thinks, until he hauls back the tarpaulin and discovers the zoo's tiger, Richard Parker, is sitting in there with him.
The WWF's Tiger Conservation Program was hoping to be more effective.
New York (CNN) -- The 25-year-old man who jumped from a monorail car into the Bronx Zoo's tiger den was not drunk or insane, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Steel makers have been forced to take steps to protect themselves against painful raw material cost increases mainly due to surging demand from Asia's tiger economies, including China, to power their growth.
It called for the relocation of 66, 500 families living in 1, 500 villages in India's 28 tiger reserves.
Guan's idol Tiger Woods, then 21, when he ran away with the title in 1997, his third try.
Exxon's cartoon tiger fell on leaner days in the 1980s, when the company started to favor a live tiger for its ad campaigns.
Chaired by Morley's widow Ruth Leon, this year's panel included theatre critic Mark Shenton, director Braham Murray and the actor and writer Isla Blair, who was on last year's shortlist for A Tiger's Wedding.
For example, in Mauritius - southern Africa's "little tiger" which has full employment and where women's entry into the labour force has played a crucial role in economic growth - men are the source of 92 % of the economic news.
Watson's relationship with Tiger Woods will come under intense scrutiny, having criticized the 14-time major winner's behavior on and off the course following his fall from grace in 2009.
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When Nicklaus was Tiger's age, 32 years and two months, he's won 47 tournaments, 16 fewer than Tiger.
The region's economies are not, then, as vulnerable to the tiger's claws as they were in 2008.
Veteran broadcaster and writer Lubomir Doruzka tells how a guitar player was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp for singing a chorus of Louis Armstrong's "Super Tiger Rag".
Joseph's other credits include the fine off-Broadway "Gruesome Playground Injuries, " which tells a love story through lovers' scars, and Broadway's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, " a Pulitzer Prize finalist in drama about the Iraq war starring Robin Williams.
"Given the circumstances of the past 18 months, working through Tiger's scandal, a new coach and with it a major swing change and Tiger battling through injuries, I am very disappointed to end our very successful partnership at this time, " he added.
The first 2, 000 buyers will receive a special edition version with a laser-engraved tiger graphic reminiscent of the product's previous name, Blue Tiger.
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"Tiger's played great golf this year, " said McIlroy of his new Nike stablemate and 14-time major winner Tiger Woods.
Johnson's father, Bill (Tiger) Johnson, was a coach for pro football's Cincinnati Bengals.
Sheikh Hasina will not, says a senior politician, want to pull the tiger's tail.
He wanted to achieve, to endure and to excel, and behind his gentle manner lay a tiger's determination.
As it advances into the Tiger's last domain, the army must be careful to distinguish civilians from rebel fighters.
"We all got spoiled for more than a decade with Tiger's performances, " says Sean McManus, the chairman of CBS Sports.
If LSU loses, however, especially by a tiger's toe, one can expect a debate to rage far beyond the bayou.
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