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Over the last decade Save The Tiger Fund grantees have been working diligently in each of the world’s remaining tiger landscapes to understand basic tiger ecology, predator-prey relationships, habitat use and distribution patterns, and reproductive biology of this ellusive species. This work has greatly contributed toour understanding of the species, as well as the important role that it plays in the ecosystems of Asia.

Tiger Conservation

If we want to save wild tigers, we will have to improve and expand on-the-ground conservation efforts that directly reduce threats to tigers and increase tiger and prey populations and improve their habitat. However, without controls on the demand for tiger parts, inordinate pressures are being placed on wild tigers. Even tiger reserves are not safe. That is sadly illustrated by the case of Sariska Tiger Reserve in India where, in 2005, poachers completely wiped out wild tigers. Thus our tiger conservation strategy must both improve and strengthen on-the-ground conservation and reduce the trafficking of tiger parts. We are tackling the approach using a two-pronged strategy: the first is to strengthen landscape-level conservation and the second is to stop the illegal trade in tiger parts.

Biodiversity

Save the Tiger Fund works with international and local organizations throughout Asia to study the impact of habitat fragmentation and degredation on biodiversity, establish ecological corridors that reconnect high-value landscapes, and bring back our most threatened species back from the brink of extinction.

Climate Change

Save the Tiger Fund provides funding for projects in high-carbon storage forests to increase government capacity to effectively prevent and deter illegal logging, increase local incentives for environmental conservation, and direct carbon-offset credits to fund the conservation of high value habitats.