Road-building plans threaten Indonesian tigers

Associated Press: Indonesia is preparing to greenlight the construction of several highways through a park that has one of the world's few viable populations of wild tigers, conservationists warned Thursday. The move would be especially alarming, they said, because it would come just months after the government signed a deal in Russia promising to do everything possible to save the iconic big cats from extinction. There are about 3,500 tigers left in the wild worldwide. The Kerinci Seblat National Park, which......

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