"It may seem unthinkable but the tiger is on the brink of extinction"
In India, there's been a big increase in the number of tigers killed in the past year. Several top tiger reserves now have no tigers at all, or are down to single-figure populations, while the most recent data from Siberia suggests a 40% decline in the Amur tiger population in the last 4 years.
This is all due to a huge recent increase in poaching and habitat destruction. Tigers desperately need our immediate help.
Source - World Wildlife Fund and World Conservation Society
Latest figures show there may only be 3,200 wild tigers left in the world. Unless we take action now we could lose these magnificent animals forever.
I had the great privilege to see my first wild tiger in Kanha National Park in April 2007, and I've been completely and utterly mesmerised by these magnificent cats ever since.
You can read all the accounts of tiger behaviour, stories of their astonishing physical prowess and marvel at their beauty, but nothing can prepare you for the emotional experience of encountering a tiger in the wild, it registers deep within your mind and body in those recesses where your soul resides and is a profoundly uplifting experience. There is nothing like it in the natural world.
On the flip side of this natural high is the sobering reality of the tiger's plight. Since the turn of the 19th century the tiger population has been reduced by 96%.
It may seem unthinkable but the tiger is
on the brink of extinction, with some dire warnings that unless action is taken immediately tigers may become extinct in the wild by 2020. While I hope that's a worst case scenario there's no hiding from the fact that tigers are facing a merciless assault from poachers, habitat destruction, and unsustainable hunting of their natural prey.
Thankfully the situation is not hopeless. Tigers are resilient creatures and have bounced back from dreadfully low numbers before, but they've never faced an onslaught like they do presently. Fortunately, there are many organisations fighting to save the tiger and their habitat, but they need political and financial support. I support a number of agencies attempting to safeguard the wild tiger and hope I can raise some additional funds through the sale of prints from this website
A donation from the sale of every photographic print will be made to the tiger conservation charity - Tiger Awareness.
All proceeds (after printing & postage) of prints made from captive animal images
and
£3.00 from the sale of every print of a wild animal
will go to Tiger Awareness, a voluntary non-profit making charity based in the UK that works to raise awareness of the tiger's plight, as well as: Providing compensation payments to farmers who have lost livestock to tigers at Bandhavgargh Currently raising funds for an anti-poaching project in Ranthambhore tiger reserve. Tiger Conservation agencies Please take a look as they provide an exhaustive insight into the dangers facing the tiger and importantly the solutions.
Whether you choose to support high level conservation of tigers species via species adoption (e.g. World Wildlife Fund or World Conservation Society), or local frontline conservation programmes, tigers desperately need our help.
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