World Wildlife Fund's Tiger Conservation Strategy
Despite the best efforts of conservation groups and governments, tigers still struggle to survive. After four years of careful study and analysis to determine where tigers have the best chance of survival, World Wildlife Fund embarked on a new conservation strategy in 2002. This ambitious plan, which we hope will serve as a rallying cry to all people interested in saving the tiger, recognizes the need to take tiger conservation beyond the borders of national parks and reserves into entire landscapes, devoting most of our efforts to specific focal landscapes. The areas below, selected from across the tiger's range, are the habitats where the chances of long-term tiger survival are greatest and where we have efforts underway, or where future efforts will likely be most valuable:
Amur-Heilong
Russian Far East
Borneo and Sumatra
Central and South Sumatra (Indonesia)
Eastern Himalayas
Terai Arc (along the border of Nepal and India)
The "North Bank" of Arunchal Pradesh-Assam-Namdapha (India and Bhutan)
Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong (east India)
Mekong
Lower Mekong Forests (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam)
Tenasserim Western Forest Complex (Thailand)
Other WWF Network Priorities
Satpuda-Maikal Range (central India)
Sundarbans (Bangladesh and India)
Taman Negara-Belum-Halabala (Malaysia and Thailand)
The Nilgiris (southwest India)
A new tiger study released in 2006 confirms that these areas are among the key tiger landscapes for global conservation.
Our tiger conservation strategy is based on a landscape-level rather than site-specific approach, encompassing integrated land-use planning, including local stakeholders and fully addressing the ecological needs.
That strategy is two-fold:
1. We will work to establish well-managed networks of buffered core protected areas and tiger-friendly corridors in the focal landscapes. An important indicator of our success will be the presence, by the year 2010, of at least 100 breeding female tigers in each area.
2. We will work to reduce - and ultimately, eliminate - the trade in tiger parts and products to a level that no longer threatens the tiger's survival. This will require close cooperation between WWF, the TRAFFIC network, appropriate governments, non-governmental organizations and other partners.
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