Tiger experts gather to discuss extinction fears

Tiger experts are gathering in Nepal for a conference to discuss the declining population of the animal and to find measures to try to save them.

Experts from 20 countries – including the 13 where tigers are still found – are participating in the October 27-30 conference in Kathmandu.

Nepal’s secretary of forest and soil conservation Yuvaraj Bhusal says participants are assembling to save tigers that are on the verge of extinction.

Participants hope to make high-level policymakers in those 13 countries more aware of the likely extinction of the animal.