PHOTO OF THE DAY July 19, 2004  

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Where Siberia, Russia
When 1997
Photographer Michael Nichols

"Like candles guttering in the wind, three of the world's eight subspecies of tigers have been snuffed out. The Caspian, Bali, and Javan tigers are gone; the five surviving subspecies—Bengal, South China, Indochinese, Sumatran, and Siberian (Amur) [pictured here]—are all endangered."

(Text from "Making Room for Wild Tigers," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Making Room for Wild Tigers," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)


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