Global Tiger Day was a Roaring Success!
Thank you so much to our partners and friends who joined us on July 29th to celebrate Global Tiger Day! It was a roaring success! Individuals and organizations from around the global came together, utilized the hash-tag #WhereRtheTigers, and distributed our cartoon about U.S. efforts to address poaching and wildlife trafficking. I want to take the time to thank Judy Mills, Author of Blood of the Tiger, Debbie Banks, Senior Campaigner for theEnvironmental Investigation Agency,
Celebrate Global Tiger Day #WhereRtheTigers?
Happy Global Tiger Day! It’s finally here – the day when the world stops briefly to appreciate, learn about, and take action for the tiger. You may have already noticed that T4T has taken advantage of Global Tiger Day to launch a social media campaign using the hashtag #WhereRtheTigers? “Where are the tigers?” can be applied to multiple dimensions of tiger conservation and together we ask you to join our campaign. Where are the tigers in the wild? As most of us already know,
Aubie, He's a Real Cool Cat!
Big cats are known to be ferocious, fierce, and wild. They are said to be untamable and inhumane. That could not be untrue for Auburn University’s well-known cat, Aubie. Not only is he popular on the plains; however, he is one of the most vivacious mascots in the country. He will be the first mascot ever inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame!! True, Aubie is not a real tiger, but to Auburn he couldn’t be more real. “It is often said women love him, children adore him, and men
Member Spotlight: Diane Dotson of Clemson Tigers for Tigers Interns at Big Cat Rescue
For most college students, summer break is not all fun and games. Those three months before the beginning of a new academic year constitute a critical period for students to find work and complete internships that compliment their academic success. Finding an internship is difficult enough, but landing a position that is also fun and fulfilling is very difficult to do. Diane Dotson, Vice President of T4T at Clemson University, has managed to do just that. Diane is interning a
Vratika’s Close Encounter with a Wild Tiger
Earlier this year, were heard that Vratika Chaudhry, a M.S. student under Dr. David Tonkyn, the founding Advisor of Clemson T4T, was almost charged by a tiger on foot! Here is her story. “I conduct my fieldwork in Kanha Tiger Reserve, India for my Master’s research here at Clemson University in South Carolina. For my M.S. research I am looking into disease spillover risk from feral carnivores to wild carnivores in central India. I was in India for my second field season fro
#WhereRtheTigers
At the National Tigers for Tigers Coalition office, we dream of forests, swamps and tundra where wild tigers are free to roam without fear of falling victim to the violent greed of poachers. We dream of a world as it once was, where less than a century ago, more than 100,000 wild tigers prowled across Asia. Unfortunately, so long as tiger parts remain profitable on the black market, this is a dream that will never again be realized. Today, less than 3,200 tigers are estimated
