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Save Tigers Now is a global campaign by WWF, supported by Leonardo DiCaprio, that runs during the Chinese Year of the Tiger, 2010. Our goal is to build political and public support to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger.

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� WWF-Canon / Alain COMPOST <br> Tiger numbers are at an all-time low -- there may be as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild. However, there is hope for tigers like these three cubs in Sumatra, Indonesia. WWF has set a bold, but achievable goal to double the number of tigers in the wild within 12 years, when the next Year of the Tiger is celebrated on the Chinese lunar calendar.

� WWF-Canon / Martin HARVEY <br> The Indochinese tiger is found in Thailand, Cambodia, China, Lao, Myanmar and Vietnam. Although extensive habitat is still available in some landscapes, fragmentation driven by rapid development - especially road networks - is forcing these tigers into scattered, small refuges that isolate the populations and increase accessibility for poachers.

� WWF-Canon / Martin HARVEY <br> During the Year of the Tiger, tiger supporters have an opportunity to take actions to ensure the species� survival. These include supporting conservation efforts by WWF and others, committing to not buy products made from endangered species like tigers and asking government leaders to support tiger protection.

� WWF-Canon / Chris Martin BAHR <br> In the 1940s the Amur tiger was on the brink of extinction, with no more than 40 individuals remaining in the wild. Thanks to vigorous anti-poaching and other conservation efforts in Russia with support from many partners, including WWF, the Amur tiger population recovered and has remained stable at around 450 individuals throughout the last decade.

� WWF-Canon / KLEIN and HUBERT <br> Amur tigers, also known as Siberian tigers, live primarily in boreal forests in eastern Russia, with a few found in northeastern China and northern North Korea. Boreal forests are northern temperate forests dominated by coniferous trees such as spruce, fir, and pine. They are bordered to the north by the treeless tundra and to the south by steppes. These are amongst the coldest areas in the world. The high latitude means long winters where the sun does not rise far above the horizon.

� WWF-Canon / Martin HARVEY <br> By saving tigers, we also save the biologically rich and diverse landscapes where they still roam: Asia�s last great rain forests, jungles and wildlands. These forests are home to thousands of other species, great and small. They are also home to people and the food, freshwater and flood protection that local communities depend on.

� WWF-Canon / Gerald S. CUBITT <br> More than 90 percent of traditional tiger habitat no longer has tigers; the world�s remaining tigers are limited to less than 7 percent of their historic range.

� WWF-Canon / Vladimir FILONOV <br> WWF and partners have estimated that about 425,000 square miles of tiger habitat remain, enough to support between 20,000 and 30,000 wild tigers.

� WWF-Canon / Vladimir FILONOV <br> Russia's prime minister and the World Bank's president will convene a Tiger Summit during the Year of the Tiger where world leaders will have the opportunity to commit to bold, game-changing strategies to save tigers, like the Amur tiger pictured here.

� WWF-Canon / Hartmut JUNGIUS <br> This Amur tiger is resting in a puddle of water in a forest near the Khor river. The forests Amur tigers depend on for survival are threatened by logging, conversion to agriculture, urban expansion, road construction, mining, fires and inadequate law enforcement.

� WWF-Canon / Chris HAILS <br> In the 13 countries that still have tigers, WWF has identified the landscapes where the big cats have the best chance of surviving and increasing over the long term. We are concentrating our efforts on protecting these areas, working with local governments and partners to ensure that the tigers there are safe and can thrive.

� WWF-Canon / Martin HARVEY <br> Bengal tigers live in mountains, savannahs and mangroves in South Asia.

� WWF-Canon / Martin HARVEY <br> The stripe patterns tigers possess differ from one individual to another and from one side of the cat�s body to the other. No two tigers have identical markings.

� WWF-Canon / Martin HARVEY <br> WWF is working closely with government partners in countries that have tigers to strengthen national plans to protect tigers and double their numbers, to ensure a world where tigers thrive long into the future.

� WWF-Canon / Martin HARVEY <br> Tigers compete for space with some of the most heavily populated human populations in the world and face unrelenting pressure from poaching, retaliatory killings and habitat loss.

� WWF-Canon / Roger HOOPER <br> The number of tigers has declined from around 100,000 at the turn of the 20th century to perhaps as few as 3,200 today.

� WWF-Canon / R.Isotti-A.Cambone <br> Since the 1940s, three tiger subspecies (the Bali, Javan and Caspian) have gone extinct, and a fourth (the South China tiger) is on its way.

� WWF-Canon / R.Isotti-A.Cambone <br> The good news for tiger conservation is that tigers breed like house cats. Where there have been investments in anti-poaching and protection of habitat and prey , tiger numbers have rebounded quickly. Given enough space, prey and protection, tigers can recover.

� WWF-Canon / R.Isotti-A.Cambone <br> Save the tiger, and save so much more!

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