Save the Tiger Fund-Panthera Tiger Conservation

Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low. We have lost 97% of wild tigers in just over a century. Tigers may be one of the most revered animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction. As few as 3,200 exist in the wild today.

All funds generated will be donated directly to the Save the Tiger Fund-Panthera partnership conservation organization. Save the Tiger Fund (STF) was established by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 1995 to support the conservation of wild tigers. STF has invested significant resources in conservation projects dedicated to mitigating human-tiger conflict, protecting tiger habitat, researching tiger ecology and monitoring tiger populations, and educating and empowering local people.

Between 1995 and 2009, STF issued 336 grants totaling 17.3 million dollars across the 13 existing tiger range states. Today, STF has joined forces with Panthera to form a critical partnership to deploy strategically focused financial and technical resources in order to save tigers in the wild. Money raised serves the following purposes:

• Scientific research of tiger ecology and monitoring of tiger numbers to improve our understanding of tigers' needs.
• Education and outreach activities to build public support for tiger conservation. Anti-poaching patrols to enforce wildlife protection laws.
• Leadership training to emerging M.S. and Ph.D.-level conservation leaders. Trafficking-reduction activities to combat the global demand for and supply of tiger parts.
• Habitat restoration and acquisition.
• Sustainable development projects that improve livelihoods of people living in tiger landscapes.
• Zoo breeding programs to secure genetically viable populations of tiger subspecies in the world's zoos.
• Human-tiger conflict reduction.