Save the Tiger…and other wild cats

Helen White September 23, 2010

I can’t imagine the world without tigers. Unfortunately these beautiful animals are on the brink of extinction. Scientists estimate that fewer than 3,000 tigers exist in the wild living in 13 countries across Asia. A hundred years ago it was about 100,000.

The Java, Caspian and Bali subspecies have already become extinct while life for the existing Bengal, Sumatran, Indochinese, Malayan, Amur and South-Chinese subspecies have become increasingly difficult.

The main threats to the tiger are: hunting for traditional “medicine” across Asia, with China being the biggest market, a depleted prey base due to over-hunting by humans, shrinking habitats and human-tiger conflicts in areas where humans and tigers live in close proximity to each other.

One organisation dedicated to the conservation of the Tiger and other wild cats is “Panthera”. If you have watched “Lost Land of the Tiger” on BBC1, you may already be familiar with its President and CEO, zoologist Dr Alan Rabinowitz.

Panthera has helped creating the Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve in Myanmar, which is today the world’s largest tiger reserve. The organisation has two main tiger initiatives: “Tigers Forever”, which monitors the tiger and its prey populations and tries to mitigate the direct killing of tigers and their prey in Thailand, Myanmar, India, Lao PDR, Indonesia and Malaysia. The “Tiger Corridor Initiative” aims to identify and create safe corridors for tigers to move between protected core populations as well as throughout human landscapes. Panthera has achieved significant progress in its aim to preserve the tiger. For example all countries (except Indonesia) where the Tiger Forever Initiative is taking place have recognised their sites as the country’s best protected areas. Panthera has also successfully established a ban on all commercial hunting in the State of Johor in Malaysia.

If you love tigers and want to see their population increase check out Panthera’s website for more information on how you can help: www.panthera.org

The last episode of “Lost Land of the Tiger” is on tonight at 9pm on BBC1

2 Comments

Panthera
September 23, 2010 @ 6:38 pm

Thank you so much, Helen, for letting others know about Panthera’s tiger conservation work in Asia and the premiere of BBC’s Lost Land of the Tiger program, which features our President, Alan Rabinowitz. What a cool blog you have, love the jewelry!

The Lost Land of the Tiger program is airing in the UK right now and will be coming out in the US very soon. We’ll let you know when you can tune in! In the meantime, you can see the program trailer at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b2dwc and clips from the three episodes at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b2dwc. We know you’ll love it!

If you want to get more info on Lost Land of the Tiger or any of our other big cat projects, check out our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pantheracats, or our new website launched this week at http://www.panthera.org!
- helen
  September 23, 2010 @ 7:34 pm
  
  Thank you very much for your comment. I look forward to the final episode tonight.

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