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Endangered tigers face growing threats from an Asian road-building boom

Female tiger crossing track, Bandavgarh National Park, India. David Tipling/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Neil Carter, University of Michigan

Tigers are one of the world’s most iconic wild species, but today they are endangered throughout Asia. They once roamed across much of this region, but widespread habitat loss, prey depletion and poaching have reduced their numbers to only about

I find it hard to believe that anyone could really consider building a highway on the beach. Admittedly the hills make it near impossible to find another southerly route out of Bahía for a fast, wide road. The villages along the way could certainly do with smartening up but banging a highway down the promenade is hardly going to achieve that.