This site has been developed with the intent of supporting the vision and the work of the TigerTemple in Thailand and for the urgent need to save the Tiger from world wide extinction.
You will find some very interesting information about the vision and efforts of those involved with the TigerTemple as well as several opportunities to make a difference yourself.
I have personally volunteered at the Temple on several occasions over the past three years, living within the Temple and following the progress of their initiative.
Sadly, we haven’t much time and the undeniable truth is that if we do not change our behaviors and the Tiger does become extinct, we will have lost more of our humanity than we can ever measure.
The WWF told a 2007 conference in Stockholm that there might be only 3,500 tigers left, and that one sub-species, the South China Tiger, could soon be extinct. Chinese demand for tiger body parts - used in traditional medicine - was described as one of the main threats. The WWF's co-ordinator in Nepal, Bivash Pandav, painted a bleak picture as he described the problems facing tigers across the world, saying he believed there were some 3,500 tigers left, compared with an estimated 5,000-7,000 in 1982.
The director of WWF India's species programe, Sujoy Banerjee, said that at the beginning of the 20th Century there were an estimated 40,000 tigers in India, but that there were now no more than 1,400 - 60% fewer than in 2002. In Indonesia, the situation is described as critical."In many ways the tiger stands at a crossroads between extinction and survival, and which path it takes is totally dependent on us," Mr. Banerjee warned.
