Biodiversity
Old-growth forests in Asia are important save havens for much of the
region’s biological variety. Asia's densely populated and
rapidly changing countries require a new approach to balance growing
prosperity, lingering poverty, and the magnificent--but dwindling--array
of plants and animals.
The importance of the diversity contained within the bioregion of the
Western Ghats of India is a globally recognized by world leaders and
conservationists . Available habitat for biodiversity to flurish in the
region is being lost through degredation and
fragmentation. A connected landscape has far more ecological
benefit that the same amount of land broken up as
isoloated islands as many species require large areas to
forage and disperse. Tigers are one such species that require a large
amount of space to roam. Tigers serve as an umbrella species for much of
the biodiversity in the Western Ghats. Efforts to insure that tigers
have a functioning habitat to survive at the top of the food change
require understanding and protecting large geographic areas in which
innumerable species coexist.
Save the Tiger Fund works with international and local organizations
in the Western Ghats--and throughout Asia--to study the effects that
habitat fragmentation and degredation on biodiversity and create
ecological corridors to reconnect habitats and bring back our most
threatened species from the brink.
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