Tigers Bounce Back in the Terai
 Reading the news headlines about tiger
conservation can sometimes be a depressing exercise. In the last six
months, a gloomy picture has been painted for tigers, particularly in
India where a new census revealed that only 1,300 to 1,500 tigers
remain- about half of the previous official estimates. What these
reports don’t reveal is that tiger populations have
not actually declined by 50 percent; rather, it is more likely that the
old census numbers were inaccurate due to the use of pug-mark
(footprint) counts, where often the same tiger is counted more than
once. Continue
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Taking Stock of the Tiger Trade
 Take a moment and think
about where tiger trade was two years ago, when Save The Tiger Fund
launched the Campaign Against Tiger Trafficking (CATT). At the end of
2005, tiger-trimmed robes were a must-have fashion item on the Tibetan
Plateau. Businessmen who were battery farming tigers had petitioned the
Chinese government to reopen tiger trade. Every last tiger had been
poached out of India’s Sariska Tiger Reserve to feed
the black market for tiger skins and bones. Tigers appeared to be on the
brink of being traded to extinction. Continue
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Grantee Spotlight: The Centre For Environmental
Education
The Centre for Environment
Education (CEE) was created to incorporate environmental education into
India’s national environment and development
strategy. CEE's primary objective is to improve public awareness and
understanding of the environment while promoting the conservation and
sustainable use of natural resources, leading to a better environment
and an improved quality of life for people. Continue
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Cayman Islands Kids Save Tigers!
 A few months ago, we
received an interesting packet in the mail from the Cayman Islands.
Inside the envelope was a contribution to Save The Tiger Fund and a
newspaper clipping of a feature article in the local newspaper about
what kids at North Side Primary were doing to help tigers. As a summer
school activity, the children were encouraged to choose a charismatic
mascot about which they could research essays, write poems, and perform
skits and dances in their summer school concert. Continue
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Ullas Karanth Wins Getty Award
 This past October in Washington D.C., Dr. Ullas
Karanth was announced the winner of the $200,000 J. Paul Getty Award.
Dr. Karanth is a Save The Tiger Fund grantee who has been working for
over 25 years to save wild tigers in India. His leadership in
conservation science and his development of camera trap methods to
accurately count tigers based on the unique striping patterns on each
animal were highlighted at the award ceremony, hosted by the World
Wildlife Fund. Continue
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