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Beyond the Stripes
Tigers are inspirational. Their extraordinary nature and symbolism moves people to act and make bold commitments. In 2010, leaders of the 13 countries that are home to tigers agreed on an ambitious conservation goal:
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Good News: Increase in Wild Tiger Global Estimate
According to the best available data, around 3,890 tigers exist in the wild. This is an increase from the global estimate in 2010 which counted as few as 3,200. This updated figure was compiled from
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Earth Day 2015: the Good, the Bad and the Silenced
Wednesday, April 22, is Earth Day 2015, the 45th celebration of what started out as a true grassroots movement—the environmental likes of which we haven’t seen since. Last year, on Earth Day 2014, I
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Should We Vaccinate Wild Animals for Canine Distemper Virus?
The world’s tigers face considerable threats today: poaching, habitat loss, depletion of their prey and retaliatory kills by humans when the big cats take livestock. But now, a new threat has surfaced: the canine
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Counting Wild Tigers by 2016: Will It Help Save Them?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 13 countries that have wild tiger populations agreed to take part in a global census of the endangered big cats. The hope is that this count will then lead to
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WWF Report: 52 Percent of the World’s Biodiversity Is Gone
When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released its Living Planet Report 2014 on September 30, it wasn’t the usual doom-and-gloom environmental news story that is forgotten the next day. The report—the result of a science-based
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