We continue to support the Long-Term Tiger Monitoring Project started by Chuck McDougal in the 1970’s.

In 2022, WPSI assisted wildlife enforcement agencies with information on 16 cases in India and another 6 in Nepal, resulting in the apprehension of 62 alleged criminals.

Operation Bondomobile was launched in 2011 with the generous support of David Bonderman to create anti-poaching tiger conservation awareness in the fringe villages of Kanha and Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserves. Under the program, WPSI deploys audio-visual awareness vans to raise tiger conservation and anti-poaching awareness in the villages that fringe Central India’s key tiger landscapes

It has become universally agreed upon that successful conservation depends upon the cooperation and participation of local communities around tiger habitat. With the vision of Dr. Bhim Gurung and in partnership with Nepal’s National Trust for Nature Conservation, in 2009 The Fund for The Tiger began funding a community-based anti-poaching unit at Dalla in the southwestern corner of Nepal’s Bardia National Park.

Tigers are not normally aggressive to humans unless startled at close quarters, a mother with cubs, chance encounters on a kill, or old and/or injured and thereby forced to hunt outside their normal prey and habitat. Those often become the ‘maneaters’.

Ever wonder what happens to the tigers killed by poachers in India and Nepal? In some cases their bones are steeped in distilled spirits in China to produce an elixir that’s as incomprehensible to Westerners as it is revered by devotees of traditional Chinese medicine: tiger bone wine.

The tiger is on the verge of extinction and international awareness and concern must be mobilized. The hard work, optimism, and complacency generated by two decades of effort to save the tiger in South Asia- must now be urgently re-examined.