Four Day Global Tiger Workshop starts in Kathmandu

Students wearing tiger masks at an awareness rally marking the start of the the four-day Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop starts in Kathmandu. Kathmandu, Nepal. 26/10/2009. Nepali Prime Minister Madav Kumar Nepal inaugurated the workshop and promised to extend protected areas for tigers in Nepal.

Students participating in a rally organized to spread awareness to save the Tiger at Ratnapark in Kathmandu on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. The rally was organize to mark a conference at Kathmandu to protect the endangered tigers. This is the first time that a conference has been organized for the protection of the tiger. Earlier, a meeting of the forum, which was held on Monday had decided to observe 2010 as the year of the tiger.