New Cubs Bring Hope to Tigers

Hope has been brought to a rare species of tigers called Sumatran. Three female and one male tiger cubs have been born in the Oklahoma City Zoo after three years of waiting for there to be cubs. There are less than 300 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. These cubs are bringing hope for the almost existent tigers to come back from "the brink extinction". Three out of nine species of tigers have already gone extinct in the past 70 years. The Amur, Bengal, Malayan, South China, and Sumatran are the six remaining species of tigers still left. All of them on the "endangered or critically endangered list".

They tigers are being lost mostly because of habitat loss or poaching. Tiger bones, eyes, teeth and other parts are used in some Asian countries as medicine for malaria and meningitis. Tiger are also hunted for there skin to be sold by group or individual poachers. Some roads that are built make the tigers territory smaller and prey might be to small for the groups of tigers. The World Wildlife and Wildlife Conservation Society are attempting to get a "top-level" Asian government official to get involved in tiger conservation. Conservation is being helped by individual members of villages who patrol forests to make sure there are no illegal poachers. Also, there are programs in zoos to help increase the tiger population.




Source: Life Science

Recycled Village

So far, our village has started. We are also making a Christmas time village so it will be snowy and with Christmas trees. We need more yogurt cartons for houses. We are going to bring cotton fiber for the snow on the ground. Next week, we are going to build a wind mill out of a 1 liter soda bottle and 1 foot wooden stake. Also, we are going to bring in pizza tables for picnic tables in the park. Angela made snow flakes out of cotton balls. We will also make a forest with Popsicle stick trees.

Next week, I am going to build a windmill. We are going to put the snowballs Angela made into plastic spoons used as blades for the windmill. Also, we are going to use a motor to make a fan to blow the windmill.

Even though we are not making a project that was assigned before, we are allowed to enter

this project because we are using a motor from the motorized challenge.

By Anya and Angela

Recycled Village

Angela and I, Anya, are going to create a "village" out of recycled materials: soda bottles, little water bottles, cardboard, yogurt cartons, paper, and tape. Our village will have people made out of cardboard and paper, trees made out of cardboard and green paper, houses made out of yogurt cartons, picnic tables will be made out of the tables found in pizza box, and a wind mill whose base is made out of a a soda bottle and the blades are made out little water bottles.