Ensuring There Is A Future To Be Seen
Conservation of the Bengal tiger is a major concern globally, with multiple governments and non-profit organizations cooperating to perform studies and employing new methods to save the tiger from extinction. Agreements between countries have also been made, teaming up to help bring back stable, sustainable populations of the species (1). Despite all the influences working against them, Bengal tigers still have a chance at making a comeback. One important factor is that there are extensive tiger landscapes across Asia that could be used as viable tiger habitats, given the proper care and protection (2). Also, based off of over 40 years of extensive research, experts now know and understand exactly what tigers need to survive (2). Panthera, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of big cats, has recognized that tiger conservation efforts need to consistently focus on the elimination of the critical threats to the tiger's long-term survival. They have also realized that traditional methods and programs were flawed because they did not use long-term population monitoring techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of their work (2). A few years ago, forestry officials from many tiger-harboring countries met together in Russia for a tiger summit. The goal of this summit was to get their countries more involved in tiger conservation, and to hopefully double the population of wild tigers by 2022 (1). World Wildlife Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of numerous threatened species, is working with officials in each of the thirteen countries that convened at the tiger summit to ensure they stay on track to their goal of recovering the tiger populations (1).
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