Unscrupulously killed to supply the lucrative black market for skins, organs and bones that are claimed by eastern medicine to heal all manner of human ills, the Tiger has paradoxically fallen victim to its own mythological symbolism.
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“The Tiger is the sentinel. The Tiger is the great symbol that keeps this quality of the natural world alive. Therefore, people like myself will fight for it till the last day I'm alive.”
Valmik Thapar
Save The Tiger Fund's 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.
Save The Tiger’s Fund
Conservation Strategy
Executive Summary
Wild Tigers are in a precarious state. Our best approximation concludes that Tiger habitats throughout India, Indochina, and Southeast Asia are now 40% less than what we estimated in 1995. As the Economic Tigers of Asia leap onto the world stage, wild Tiger populations in those countries are in steep decline; today Tigers occupy a mere 7% of their historical range and the threats are mounting, rather than diminishing.
Setting Priorities for the Conservation and Recovery of Wild Tigers: 2005 – 2015
The Technical Assessment - Executive Summary
This landmark study is commissioned by the Save The Tiger Fund and produced by some of the worlds leading tiger scientists at World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, the Smithsonians National Zoological Park and Save The Tiger Fund.
Tiger : Being extremely fast and powerful, its very name has been derived from classical Greek root for 'arrow'.
From Time Immemorial, the Tiger has been an object of great awe, reverence and superstition. It has an overpowering presence and its strength and ferocity are proverbial. It is deeply interwoven in the folklore and mythology of a number of countries where it is also a symbol of bravery. In India, it is closely associated with a feared Hindu Goddess, Durga, the slayer of demons.
Once hunted in the name of sport, the Tiger is now hunted illegally for profit and for traditional medicines. Human encroachment - for farming, human resettlement, mining, industrialisation and logging, and land lost by dams for irrigation and electricity - is pushing this amazing creature to the edge of extinction.
It is feared that within the next two decades the Tiger's population may be reduced to a level lower than required for the genetic diversity essential for survival of the species.
Unless the conscience of the world is stirred by the plight of this beautiful animal and its governments show genuine commitment to preventing its extinction, the Tiger may soon fade to just a memory.
From "The Vanishing Tiger", Vivek R. Sinha
“I personally do not believe in wildlife management – wildlife manage themselves. We can only manage humans. We can only communicate with humans, by telling them what they should do to provide a healthy environment for wildlife.”
“The fundamental philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine is harmony and balance between nature and humans. Now there is no balance, because humans take too much from nature.”
If you have any knowledge of poaching, trading in tiger parts, or selling of tiger parts, you can contact the local authorities or contact TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
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