Global Conservation Highlights International Tiger Day
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Global Conservation Celebrates International Tiger Day
Tigers mean a great deal to us here at Global Conservation because of how much we're physically, mentally, monetarily, and perhaps spiritually invested in their conservation. These unbelievably beautiful and powerful creatures are under constant threat from poachers, deforestation, poisoning, snares, and much more.
It goes without saying that tigers are worth every effort to keep them from going extinct. Each subspecies is either Endangered, Critically Endangered, or Extinct already. And as you may have heard before, there are more tigers owned in captivity than there are in the wild. However, wild tigers are to be celebrated (and respected)! They are the most striking of all wildcats, serve as the absolute top apex predator of all terrestrial wildlife wherever they inhabit, live incredible lives, and even love to be in water, just to name a few reasons.
Of course, in some situations, tiger conservation can become extra complicated as the nature of tigers living among humans is a harrowing experience for the locals and keeps those locations socio-economically complicated. This is why we're listening to those local communities and working with them to understand, develop, and then collaborate on solutions. The only way to save tigers is by working with the local people, who are keenly aware of the predicament they find themselves in.
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Get Lost Podcast Interviews Executive Director Jeff Morgan about "Saving the Last Tigers"
"In 2015, tens of thousands of illegal loggers concentrated at Thap Lan National Park, in the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage site. Determined to harvest rosewood, they spent weeks cutting down Thailand’s last rosewood trees leaving an ecological disaster in their wake.
Wildlife—including the park's tiger population—was decimated. In the years following what became known as the Rosewood Wars, no tigers were seen inside the park—until recently, when adult tigers with cubs were spotted in their ancestral forest.
In Asia, tigers have lost more than 95% of their historic range. The cubs represent some of the few wild tigers left in Southeast Asia.
For International Tiger Day, we sat down with Jeff Morgan from @globalconservation to learn more about the recovery of tigers in Thap Lan and to better understand how rangers across the planet are gearing up to deploy new technologies in the fight to save Earth’s last remaining wild places."
