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Mission and Strategic Plan

Vision

A world in which tigers thrive in natural habitats across their Asian range in harmony with people.

Mission

Save The Tiger Fund sponsors effective efforts to stop the killing of wild tigers and to enable wild tigers to recover and flourish, while empowering local people to live in balance with natural resources and providing tangible benefits to them whenever possible.

Strategic plan

Save The Tiger Fund has invested resources into revitalizing tiger conservation for over a decade. Our trans-boundary approach focuses on strategic solutions with an emphasis on engaging local people as partners in this conservation effort. In such landscapes, where humans dominate, the quality of life depends on people's capacity to respect and manage their environment. Tigers are at the top of these intricate ecosystems, and securing their survival is a significant step to ensure the ecological integrity and survival of all living things, including humans. View the strategic plan.

Sustained conservation for this magnificent species in ever-changing environments requires strategic and flexible allocation of resources to key tiger landscapes, anchored by leadership capacity, sound science, best business practices and public education. Working from a core commitment to human values and welfare, with a global commitment from leaders of governments, nongovernmental organizations, businesses and local communities, we can stabilize wild tiger populations and benefit from the world’s biodiversity.

In the past ten years, Save The Tiger Fund’s vision has realized remarkable, though hard-earned successes.  Yet the possibility for harmony between humans and tigers is under critical strain as priorities shift and violent threats continue to drive tiger populations towards a crisis point in many areas.

Due to the demand for wildlife parts, organized poaching is obliterating once promising tiger populations. Save The Tiger Fund has prioritized rigorous anti-poaching efforts to intervene along the entire chain of illegal wildlife trade - from the source to the consumer. This marks a significant shift in strategy and resources as part of an integrated five-year strategy aimed at combating principal threats and identifying appropriate responses in order to secure a future for wild tigers. Our program focuses on eliminating the consumption of tigers; creating harmonious tiger-human landscapes; increasing knowledge, skills and cooperation to support wild tiger conservation; and building recognition and support to make wild tigers valuable to humans.

To underpin this effort, conservation issues must be positioned high on national agendas. Stepping up communication networks will be essential to expand tiger conservation capacity, in terms of both financial and human capital.