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The tiger's hold on the human imagination remains fast, even as the tiger's hold on the remnants of its former realm grows ever more tenuous.All across Asia, from Western India to the Russian Far East, tigers and tiger habitat are succumbing to the seemingly insatiable demands of expanding economies, growing populations, and rising material expectations. Commercial markets are penetrating ever deeper into the tiger's remaining bastions, followed closely by advancing agricultural frontiers. Many observers have declared that the tiger is doomed. Ullas Karanth of the Wildlife Conservation Society believes otherwise. With the Foundation's support, he and his WCS colleagues have mounted a range-wide effort to conserve viable tiger populations in key landscapes across Asia: the Western Ghat Mountains in India's Karnataka State, the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area in Cambodia's Mondulkiri Province, and the protected areas and hunting leases of Primorski and Khabarovski Krai in the Russian Far East. |
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