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 traffi cking of tiger parts. We are tackling the approach using a
two-pronged strategy: the fi rst is to strengthen landscape-level
conservation and the second is to stop the illegal trade in tiger
parts.
