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Dalai Lama offers lifeline to Indian tiger
"The reaction of the Tibetan people, now they have been made aware of the results of their actions -- it gives a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel for the Indian tiger,"
"When you go back to your respective places, remember what I had said earlier and never use, sell, or buy wild animals, their products or derivatives,"
- Belinda Wright of the Wildlife Protection Society of India
"When you go back to your respective places, remember what I had said earlier and never use, sell, or buy wild animals, their products or derivatives,"
- Belinda Wright of the Wildlife Protection Society of India
New Delhi, India - 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.