Conserving tiger landscapes

Big wins for tigers

WWF's Tx2 campaign seeks ambitious commitments to tiger conservation throughout the Year of the Tiger in priority tiger landscapes.

First Big Win: Nepal

Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar, stated that the government would establish a National Tiger ... / ©: Gajendra Shrestha / World Bank
Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar, making comitments to tiger conservation at the Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop, October 2009.
© Gajendra Shrestha / World Bank
The Government of Nepal announced an expansion of Bardia National Park in the Terai Arc Landscape by 900 sq km, which will increase critical habitat for tigers.

The government will also establish a National Tiger Conservation Authority as well as a Wildlife Crime Control Committee. More...
Tiger (Panthera tigris) skull and bones taken from illegal trade, India / ©: naturepl.com/Vivek Menon / WWF
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Long-term action

WWF's Tiger Initiative is working to restore tiger populations and distributions to at least 20% of their former range in 13 priority landscapes.

This involves:

  • Recovering tiger and prey populations through better management of protected areas and engaging a wider range of local stakeholders in anti-poaching measures
  • Managing tiger habitat, including restoration and management of corridors between core areas through land-uses compatible with tiger conservation
  • Creating additional or expanding exisiting protected areas to support viable, breeding tiger populations, and link them with habitat corridors
  • Engaging business, industry, and development groups to support tiger conservation and adopt environmentally sensitive approaches that avoid negative impacts on habitat and tiger populations
  • Performing economic valuations of the ecological services and sustainable use of natural resources derived from tiger landscapes to mainstream tigers and tiger conservation-related values into development planning process and policy formulation
  • Strengthening community engagement in: habitat management and tiger conservation by providing economic incentives; multi-stakeholder forums to discuss, mediate, and resolve conservation issues such as land and natural resource management; revenue sharing; community-led anti-poaching strategies; and human wildlife conflict
  • Using innovative wildlife research and monitoring techniques to learn more about the tiger and prey biology in order to improve tiger conservation approaches, reduce conflict, and prioritize interventions
  • Establishing sustainable funding mechanisms to support tiger conservation, including from philanthropic funding, carbon financing, and government grants

2010 aim

    • Secure necessary protection and funding for key tiger landscapes and strengthen tiger trade bans

Long-term aims

    • By 2020, genetically viable, breeding tiger populations are well protected in core areas in 13 landscapes
    • By 2020, strategic corridors and habitat matrices link the core areas that harbour breeding tiger populations to manage them as metapopulations, and ensure their ecological, behavioural, and demographic viability
    • By 2020, sustainable funding sources acquired and mechanisms developed for conservation of tiger landscapes

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