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Saving the Big Cats
I applaud TIME for its cover story [Aug. 23] on the vulnerable status of big cats (lions, tigers, snow leopards, cheetahs and others). Human overpopulation, hunting, poverty and ignorancealong with the horrendous practice of buying and selling animal partshave proved to be obstacles too tough to overcome, even for creatures as magnificent as the big cats you pictured. Every solution mentioned by the scientists and conservationists is worth trying. We owe these animals our best efforts.
Gillian Beach Cieri
West Palm Beach, U.S.

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