Our solutions for saving tigers
WWF’s new strategy for tiger conservation is aligned with, and based upon, the following vision and goals:
Vision
A world in which tigers thrive in natural habitats across their range and benefit humanity as a result.Long-term goal
To conserve viable populations of tigers and their prey, across their entire range, in large well-managed networks of protected areas, buffer zones and connecting tiger-friendly landscapes.WWF's programme goal (to the year 2010)
To improve the protection and management of key tiger populations and their habitats in top priority conservation landscapes, through measures that can be sustained and supported over the long term by governments, local communities and other stakeholders.Download the full publication
In arid areas, irrigation is one of the best gifts you can give to a farmer. The TAL project gives away water pumps to farmers that can be operated maunally by pedalling like a bicycle.
© WWF-Canon / Helena Telkanranta
© WWF-Canon / Helena Telkanranta
Drawing upon four decades of tiger conservation work with partners across Asia, and working with some of the world's most eminent experts, WWF has developed a new and far-reaching strategy. Its cornerstone is a landscape-based approach to tiger conservation supported by a strong programme to address illegal trade wherever it occurs.
Today, wild tigers occur mostly in small 'island' populations, which are predisposed to inbreeding and increasing vulnerability to the pressures of encroachment and poaching. Keeping these 'islands' intact amid some of the most densely human-populated countries is possible - but it offers little hope for the species’ genetic vigour and long-term viability.An all-round integrated approach
WWF recognises the need to take tiger conservation beyond the borders of national parks and nature reserves into entire landscapes by integrating the protection, restoration and sustainable use of the ecosystems in which the tigers live.
The essence is to conserve their broad ecology and behaviour in their natural habitat, not just discrete populations. This is not to imply that conservation work in isolated reserves is unimportant; rather, it underlines the unique role that these core areas have in establishing vibrant and viable tiger conservation landscapes.
'People-friendly' conservation measures
WWF's landscape conservation goal aims at connecting protected areas through natural corridors and protecting them. To do this, field managers and policy-makers must employ 'people-friendly' conservation approaches that will allow humans to coexist harmoniously with tigers in these landscapes. This ambitious venture must involve local communities, local authorities and other stakeholders at different levels of planning, policy-making and implementation.
