© WWF-india
After a couple of minutes, the tiger
turned away from its astonished
audience and swam towards an island
about 200m away. “It was swimming
fast, much faster than I have seen any
human swim,” he adds.
The heaviest
recorded tiger
weighed four times
the weight of
an average man.
X4
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A tiger’s territory can
be as large as 39 sq km
– the size of 100,000
football pitches.
100,000
“The moment it saw us, it stopped
swimming,” says Chiranjib.
Cover image: © Anup Shah/Naturepl.com This page: © martin harvey / wwf-canon
Page 5
WWF-Hong Kong, Suite1002, 10/F, Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
© 1986 Panda symbol WWF
Luckily, Chiranjib had his camera with
him, and managed to snap this amazing
picture.
Some of our field staff regularly catch
sight of wild tigers at close quarters - but
it’s a different story in the Sundarbans
Tiger Reserve in the Bay of Bengal. In
this vast area of impenetrable mangrove
forest, you can go years without ever
spotting a tiger – even though more
Bengal tigers live here than anywhere
else in the world.
Kamrita leaps
into action
Conservation
Climate Change
Sustainability
So it was a once-in-a-lifetime moment
for Chiranjib, a project officer with our
Sundarbans team, when he spotted this
tiger swimming just a few metres away
from his boat.
close encounters of the tiger kind
Tiger cubs are able
to catch and kill
their prey by about 11
months of age.
11 months
A large deer can
provide a single tiger
with a week’s
supply of food.
YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE
MY TIGERS • Issue 2
1 WEEK
Tigers in numbers
My tigers
© naturepl.com / Andy Rouse / WWF
What we did get is the more traditional
signs of tiger activity. Our researchers
found pugmarks and other signs of
Kamrita in the mud and grass, near to
where our cameras are placed. Sometimes
it’s just good to go back to
basics!
MY tigerS field report
one giant leap for kamrita
Park warden sees fleeting but amazing sight of
Kamrita in mid-air clash with male tiger
© WWF-malaysia / raymond alfred
It’s an amazing enough sight when a tiger
is spotted anywhere in the wild. But then
there are sightings that are so amazing
that, even if they last for just a few seconds,
they truly have to be seen to be believed.
This is exactly what happened to a lucky
park ranger and a researcher recently, as
they patrolled part of Chitwan National
Park. While walking through the dense
habitat looking for poachers’ snares and
signs of tiger activity, they suddenly
spotted Kamrita and a male tiger bumping
up against each other’s chests in mid-air!
According to the ranger, the arresting sight
only lasted a few seconds before both tigers
vanished. “It happened so quickly that
the researcher didn’t have time to take a
Tiger mother and cubs, Chitwan National Park
photograph,” says WWF’s Sabita Milla, who
works in the region. These opportunities
come only once in a lifetime, and we can only
imagine how awesome it would have been to
witness this sight in person!
Monsoon madness
Project location
Species: Bengal tiger
Location: Chitwan National
Park, Nepal
Nepal
Our dedicated field
staff have been out
in force protecting
Kamrita and the other
tigers in Chitwan. Our
anti-poaching team regularly combs the
area for evidence of snares and nets laid
for tigers. “This means we can usually find
tiger snares and remove them before they
become a danger to wild tigers,” explains
Sabita. Of course, there will always be
cases when poachers are successful. But
thanks to your adoption, our teams are
Field staff look for signs of tiger activity
doing everything they can to keep tigers
safe.
43
chitwan national park
is home to at least 43
species of mammals
MY tigerS NEWS
three reasons to smile
Trio of cubs bring hope to former poaching blackspot
The last few months have seen the monsoon
season unleash its full force on Chitwan
National Park. This is great news for tiger
habitat - the grasslands that tigers need
for shelter have bloomed and have become
thick, tall and lush.
Name: Kamrita, your
adopted tiger (pronounced
Kam-reet-a)
But in some cases, the grass has grown
so tall that it’s actually blocked tigers’
access to ‘corridors’ or ‘trails’ that they
use for getting from one place to another.
Wherever this has happened, we’ve cleared
the excess vegetation.
Heavy rains may be mainly good news
for tigers, but it’s not so good for getting
clear pics of Kamrita and family. Excessive
rainfall often causes the motion detector
system to fail, so we aren’t getting the pics
we’d like to see. In fact, out of 11 cameras we
didn’t get a single pic of Kamrita or other
the tigers.
The birth of tiger cubs is always a joyful
occasion. But when we spotted three
tiny cubs with their mother in the Panna
Tiger Reserve in central India, there was
particular cause for celebration.
In 1998 there were just 21 tigers in the
reserve, but by last year poachers had
killed them all. So we worked with the
government to help move one male and
two female tigers from other reserves, and
all three were guarded closely by rangers.
The birth of the cubs shows that they’ve
settled happily into their new home.
This is the first time a tiger that’s been
moved from another reserve - called
translocation - has given birth in the
wild. The success of the scheme raises
the prospect of translocating tigers into
other areas where they’ve been wiped
out - but only after we’ve worked to
ensure those areas are well protected.
s
Chitwan
National Park
Page 4
Page 3
Page 2
With your ongoing support, we’ll make
sure there’ll be more tiger births to report
across other parts of Asia.
Alongside this, we’re educating children
from the Pardi tribe that live around the
reserve to make sure future generations
can earn a living without resorting to
illegal hunting. Pardis are hunters by
tradition, and illegal traders often pay
them to poach tigers.
•
The new family face many challenges,
and we’ll be working hard to help the
cubs survive into adulthood. We’ve been
working with the Indian government
and local field staff to crack down on
poaching, and are keeping an eye on
the tigers through state-of-the-art radio
collars and remote surveillance systems.
We know that given the space,
protection and available prey they
need, tigers breed amazingly fast. This
means that such translocation schemes
have a high likelihood of success.
WWF-Hong Kong, Suite1002, 10/F, Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
© 1986 Panda symbol WWF
© WWF-india
Luckily, Chiranjib had his camera with
him, and managed to snap this amazing
picture.
Some of our field staff regularly catch
sight of wild tigers at close quarters - but
it’s a different story in the Sundarbans
Tiger Reserve in the Bay of Bengal. In
this vast area of impenetrable mangrove
forest, you can go years without ever
spotting a tiger – even though more
Bengal tigers live here than anywhere
else in the world.
“WWF” is a WWF Registered Trademark
The heaviest
recorded tiger
weighed four times
the weight of
an average man.
A tiger’s territory can
be as large as 39 sq km
– the size of 100,000
football pitches.
After a couple of minutes, the tiger
turned away from its astonished
audience and swam towards an island
about 200m away. “It was swimming
fast, much faster than I have seen any
human swim,” he adds.
X4
100,000
“The moment it saw us, it stopped
swimming,” says Chiranjib.
Cover image: © Anup Shah/Naturepl.com This page: © martin harvey / wwf-canon
Tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, Email: [email protected]
WWF.ORG.HK
Page 5
Kamrita leaps
into action
Conservation
Climate Change
Sustainability
So it was a once-in-a-lifetime moment
for Chiranjib, a project officer with our
Sundarbans team, when he spotted this
tiger swimming just a few metres away
from his boat.
close encounters of the tiger kind
Tiger cubs are able
to catch and kill
their prey by about 11
months of age.
11 months
Alongside this, we’re educating children
from the Pardi tribe that live around the
reserve to make sure future generations
can earn a living without resorting to
illegal hunting. Pardis are hunters by
tradition, and illegal traders often pay
them to poach tigers.
YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE
1 WEEK
•
Tigers in numbers
My tigers
Park warden sees fleeting but amazing sight of
Kamrita in mid-air clash with male tiger
© WWF-malaysia / raymond alfred
This is exactly what happened to a lucky
park ranger and a researcher recently, as
they patrolled part of Chitwan National
Park. While walking through the dense
habitat looking for poachers’ snares and
signs of tiger activity, they suddenly
spotted Kamrita and a male tiger bumping
up against each other’s chests in mid-air!
According to the ranger, the arresting sight
only lasted a few seconds before both tigers
vanished. “It happened so quickly that
the researcher didn’t have time to take a
Tiger mother and cubs, Chitwan National Park
photograph,” says WWF’s Sabita Milla, who
works in the region. These opportunities
come only once in a lifetime, and we can only
imagine how awesome it would have been to
witness this sight in person!
Monsoon madness
The last few months have seen the monsoon
season unleash its full force on Chitwan
National Park. This is great news for tiger
habitat - the grasslands that tigers need
for shelter have bloomed and have become
thick, tall and lush.
Project location
Name: Kamrita, your
adopted tiger (pronounced
Kam-reet-a)
Species: Bengal tiger
Location: Chitwan National
Park, Nepal
Nepal
Page 2
Page 3
Our dedicated field
staff have been out
in force protecting
Kamrita and the other
tigers in Chitwan. Our
anti-poaching team regularly combs the
area for evidence of snares and nets laid
for tigers. “This means we can usually find
tiger snares and remove them before they
become a danger to wild tigers,” explains
Sabita. Of course, there will always be
cases when poachers are successful. But
thanks to your adoption, our teams are
Field staff look for signs of tiger activity
doing everything they can to keep tigers
safe.
43
chitwan national park
is home to at least 43
species of mammals
MY tigerS NEWS
three reasons to smile
Trio of cubs bring hope to former poaching blackspot
Wherever this has happened, we’ve cleared
the excess vegetation.
Heavy rains may be mainly good news
for tigers, but it’s not so good for getting
clear pics of Kamrita and family. Excessive
rainfall often causes the motion detector
system to fail, so we aren’t getting the pics
we’d like to see. In fact, out of 11 cameras we
didn’t get a single pic of Kamrita or other
the tigers.
The birth of tiger cubs is always a joyful
occasion. But when we spotted three
tiny cubs with their mother in the Panna
Tiger Reserve in central India, there was
particular cause for celebration.
In 1998 there were just 21 tigers in the
reserve, but by last year poachers had
killed them all. So we worked with the
government to help move one male and
two female tigers from other reserves, and
all three were guarded closely by rangers.
Page 4
The birth of the cubs shows that they’ve
settled happily into their new home.
This is the first time a tiger that’s been
moved from another reserve - called
translocation - has given birth in the
wild. The success of the scheme raises
the prospect of translocating tigers into
other areas where they’ve been wiped
out - but only after we’ve worked to
ensure those areas are well protected.
s
Chitwan
National Park
But in some cases, the grass has grown
so tall that it’s actually blocked tigers’
access to ‘corridors’ or ‘trails’ that they
use for getting from one place to another.
We know that given the space,
protection and available prey they
need, tigers breed amazingly fast. This
means that such translocation schemes
have a high likelihood of success.
A large deer can
provide a single tiger
with a week’s
supply of food.
MY TIGERS • Issue 2
With your ongoing support, we’ll make
sure there’ll be more tiger births to report
across other parts of Asia.
one giant leap for kamrita
It’s an amazing enough sight when a tiger
is spotted anywhere in the wild. But then
there are sightings that are so amazing
that, even if they last for just a few seconds,
they truly have to be seen to be believed.
The new family face many challenges,
and we’ll be working hard to help the
cubs survive into adulthood. We’ve been
working with the Indian government
and local field staff to crack down on
poaching, and are keeping an eye on
the tigers through state-of-the-art radio
collars and remote surveillance systems.
© naturepl.com / Andy Rouse / WWF
What we did get is the more traditional
signs of tiger activity. Our researchers
found pugmarks and other signs of
Kamrita in the mud and grass, near to
where our cameras are placed. Sometimes
it’s just good to go back to
basics!
MY tigerS field report
WWF-Hong Kong, Suite1002, 10/F, Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
© 1986 Panda symbol WWF
© WWF-india
Luckily, Chiranjib had his camera with
him, and managed to snap this amazing
picture.
Some of our field staff regularly catch
sight of wild tigers at close quarters - but
it’s a different story in the Sundarbans
Tiger Reserve in the Bay of Bengal. In
this vast area of impenetrable mangrove
forest, you can go years without ever
spotting a tiger – even though more
Bengal tigers live here than anywhere
else in the world.
“WWF” is a WWF Registered Trademark
The heaviest
recorded tiger
weighed four times
the weight of
an average man.
A tiger’s territory can
be as large as 39 sq km
– the size of 100,000
football pitches.
After a couple of minutes, the tiger
turned away from its astonished
audience and swam towards an island
about 200m away. “It was swimming
fast, much faster than I have seen any
human swim,” he adds.
X4
100,000
“The moment it saw us, it stopped
swimming,” says Chiranjib.
Cover image: © Anup Shah/Naturepl.com This page: © martin harvey / wwf-canon
Tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, Email: [email protected]
WWF.ORG.HK
Page 5
Kamrita leaps
into action
Conservation
Climate Change
Sustainability
So it was a once-in-a-lifetime moment
for Chiranjib, a project officer with our
Sundarbans team, when he spotted this
tiger swimming just a few metres away
from his boat.
close encounters of the tiger kind
Tiger cubs are able
to catch and kill
their prey by about 11
months of age.
11 months
Alongside this, we’re educating children
from the Pardi tribe that live around the
reserve to make sure future generations
can earn a living without resorting to
illegal hunting. Pardis are hunters by
tradition, and illegal traders often pay
them to poach tigers.
YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE
1 WEEK
•
Tigers in numbers
My tigers
Park warden sees fleeting but amazing sight of
Kamrita in mid-air clash with male tiger
© WWF-malaysia / raymond alfred
This is exactly what happened to a lucky
park ranger and a researcher recently, as
they patrolled part of Chitwan National
Park. While walking through the dense
habitat looking for poachers’ snares and
signs of tiger activity, they suddenly
spotted Kamrita and a male tiger bumping
up against each other’s chests in mid-air!
According to the ranger, the arresting sight
only lasted a few seconds before both tigers
vanished. “It happened so quickly that
the researcher didn’t have time to take a
Tiger mother and cubs, Chitwan National Park
photograph,” says WWF’s Sabita Milla, who
works in the region. These opportunities
come only once in a lifetime, and we can only
imagine how awesome it would have been to
witness this sight in person!
Monsoon madness
The last few months have seen the monsoon
season unleash its full force on Chitwan
National Park. This is great news for tiger
habitat - the grasslands that tigers need
for shelter have bloomed and have become
thick, tall and lush.
Project location
Name: Kamrita, your
adopted tiger (pronounced
Kam-reet-a)
Species: Bengal tiger
Location: Chitwan National
Park, Nepal
Nepal
Page 2
Page 3
Our dedicated field
staff have been out
in force protecting
Kamrita and the other
tigers in Chitwan. Our
anti-poaching team regularly combs the
area for evidence of snares and nets laid
for tigers. “This means we can usually find
tiger snares and remove them before they
become a danger to wild tigers,” explains
Sabita. Of course, there will always be
cases when poachers are successful. But
thanks to your adoption, our teams are
Field staff look for signs of tiger activity
doing everything they can to keep tigers
safe.
43
chitwan national park
is home to at least 43
species of mammals
MY tigerS NEWS
three reasons to smile
Trio of cubs bring hope to former poaching blackspot
Wherever this has happened, we’ve cleared
the excess vegetation.
Heavy rains may be mainly good news
for tigers, but it’s not so good for getting
clear pics of Kamrita and family. Excessive
rainfall often causes the motion detector
system to fail, so we aren’t getting the pics
we’d like to see. In fact, out of 11 cameras we
didn’t get a single pic of Kamrita or other
the tigers.
The birth of tiger cubs is always a joyful
occasion. But when we spotted three
tiny cubs with their mother in the Panna
Tiger Reserve in central India, there was
particular cause for celebration.
In 1998 there were just 21 tigers in the
reserve, but by last year poachers had
killed them all. So we worked with the
government to help move one male and
two female tigers from other reserves, and
all three were guarded closely by rangers.
Page 4
The birth of the cubs shows that they’ve
settled happily into their new home.
This is the first time a tiger that’s been
moved from another reserve - called
translocation - has given birth in the
wild. The success of the scheme raises
the prospect of translocating tigers into
other areas where they’ve been wiped
out - but only after we’ve worked to
ensure those areas are well protected.
s
Chitwan
National Park
But in some cases, the grass has grown
so tall that it’s actually blocked tigers’
access to ‘corridors’ or ‘trails’ that they
use for getting from one place to another.
We know that given the space,
protection and available prey they
need, tigers breed amazingly fast. This
means that such translocation schemes
have a high likelihood of success.
A large deer can
provide a single tiger
with a week’s
supply of food.
MY TIGERS • Issue 2
With your ongoing support, we’ll make
sure there’ll be more tiger births to report
across other parts of Asia.
one giant leap for kamrita
It’s an amazing enough sight when a tiger
is spotted anywhere in the wild. But then
there are sightings that are so amazing
that, even if they last for just a few seconds,
they truly have to be seen to be believed.
The new family face many challenges,
and we’ll be working hard to help the
cubs survive into adulthood. We’ve been
working with the Indian government
and local field staff to crack down on
poaching, and are keeping an eye on
the tigers through state-of-the-art radio
collars and remote surveillance systems.
© naturepl.com / Andy Rouse / WWF
What we did get is the more traditional
signs of tiger activity. Our researchers
found pugmarks and other signs of
Kamrita in the mud and grass, near to
where our cameras are placed. Sometimes
it’s just good to go back to
basics!
MY tigerS field report
WWF-Hong Kong, Suite1002, 10/F, Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
© 1986 Panda symbol WWF
© WWF-india
Luckily, Chiranjib had his camera with
him, and managed to snap this amazing
picture.
Some of our field staff regularly catch
sight of wild tigers at close quarters - but
it’s a different story in the Sundarbans
Tiger Reserve in the Bay of Bengal. In
this vast area of impenetrable mangrove
forest, you can go years without ever
spotting a tiger – even though more
Bengal tigers live here than anywhere
else in the world.
“WWF” is a WWF Registered Trademark
The heaviest
recorded tiger
weighed four times
the weight of
an average man.
A tiger’s territory can
be as large as 39 sq km
– the size of 100,000
football pitches.
After a couple of minutes, the tiger
turned away from its astonished
audience and swam towards an island
about 200m away. “It was swimming
fast, much faster than I have seen any
human swim,” he adds.
X4
100,000
“The moment it saw us, it stopped
swimming,” says Chiranjib.
Cover image: © Anup Shah/Naturepl.com This page: © martin harvey / wwf-canon
Tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, Email: [email protected]
WWF.ORG.HK
Page 5
Kamrita leaps
into action
Conservation
Climate Change
Sustainability
So it was a once-in-a-lifetime moment
for Chiranjib, a project officer with our
Sundarbans team, when he spotted this
tiger swimming just a few metres away
from his boat.
close encounters of the tiger kind
Tiger cubs are able
to catch and kill
their prey by about 11
months of age.
11 months
Alongside this, we’re educating children
from the Pardi tribe that live around the
reserve to make sure future generations
can earn a living without resorting to
illegal hunting. Pardis are hunters by
tradition, and illegal traders often pay
them to poach tigers.
YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE
1 WEEK
•
Tigers in numbers
My tigers
Park warden sees fleeting but amazing sight of
Kamrita in mid-air clash with male tiger
© WWF-malaysia / raymond alfred
This is exactly what happened to a lucky
park ranger and a researcher recently, as
they patrolled part of Chitwan National
Park. While walking through the dense
habitat looking for poachers’ snares and
signs of tiger activity, they suddenly
spotted Kamrita and a male tiger bumping
up against each other’s chests in mid-air!
According to the ranger, the arresting sight
only lasted a few seconds before both tigers
vanished. “It happened so quickly that
the researcher didn’t have time to take a
Tiger mother and cubs, Chitwan National Park
photograph,” says WWF’s Sabita Milla, who
works in the region. These opportunities
come only once in a lifetime, and we can only
imagine how awesome it would have been to
witness this sight in person!
Monsoon madness
The last few months have seen the monsoon
season unleash its full force on Chitwan
National Park. This is great news for tiger
habitat - the grasslands that tigers need
for shelter have bloomed and have become
thick, tall and lush.
Project location
Name: Kamrita, your
adopted tiger (pronounced
Kam-reet-a)
Species: Bengal tiger
Location: Chitwan National
Park, Nepal
Nepal
Page 2
Page 3
Our dedicated field
staff have been out
in force protecting
Kamrita and the other
tigers in Chitwan. Our
anti-poaching team regularly combs the
area for evidence of snares and nets laid
for tigers. “This means we can usually find
tiger snares and remove them before they
become a danger to wild tigers,” explains
Sabita. Of course, there will always be
cases when poachers are successful. But
thanks to your adoption, our teams are
Field staff look for signs of tiger activity
doing everything they can to keep tigers
safe.
43
chitwan national park
is home to at least 43
species of mammals
MY tigerS NEWS
three reasons to smile
Trio of cubs bring hope to former poaching blackspot
Wherever this has happened, we’ve cleared
the excess vegetation.
Heavy rains may be mainly good news
for tigers, but it’s not so good for getting
clear pics of Kamrita and family. Excessive
rainfall often causes the motion detector
system to fail, so we aren’t getting the pics
we’d like to see. In fact, out of 11 cameras we
didn’t get a single pic of Kamrita or other
the tigers.
The birth of tiger cubs is always a joyful
occasion. But when we spotted three
tiny cubs with their mother in the Panna
Tiger Reserve in central India, there was
particular cause for celebration.
In 1998 there were just 21 tigers in the
reserve, but by last year poachers had
killed them all. So we worked with the
government to help move one male and
two female tigers from other reserves, and
all three were guarded closely by rangers.
Page 4
The birth of the cubs shows that they’ve
settled happily into their new home.
This is the first time a tiger that’s been
moved from another reserve - called
translocation - has given birth in the
wild. The success of the scheme raises
the prospect of translocating tigers into
other areas where they’ve been wiped
out - but only after we’ve worked to
ensure those areas are well protected.
s
Chitwan
National Park
But in some cases, the grass has grown
so tall that it’s actually blocked tigers’
access to ‘corridors’ or ‘trails’ that they
use for getting from one place to another.
We know that given the space,
protection and available prey they
need, tigers breed amazingly fast. This
means that such translocation schemes
have a high likelihood of success.
A large deer can
provide a single tiger
with a week’s
supply of food.
MY TIGERS • Issue 2
With your ongoing support, we’ll make
sure there’ll be more tiger births to report
across other parts of Asia.
one giant leap for kamrita
It’s an amazing enough sight when a tiger
is spotted anywhere in the wild. But then
there are sightings that are so amazing
that, even if they last for just a few seconds,
they truly have to be seen to be believed.
The new family face many challenges,
and we’ll be working hard to help the
cubs survive into adulthood. We’ve been
working with the Indian government
and local field staff to crack down on
poaching, and are keeping an eye on
the tigers through state-of-the-art radio
collars and remote surveillance systems.
© naturepl.com / Andy Rouse / WWF
What we did get is the more traditional
signs of tiger activity. Our researchers
found pugmarks and other signs of
Kamrita in the mud and grass, near to
where our cameras are placed. Sometimes
it’s just good to go back to
basics!
MY tigerS field report
© WWF-india
After a couple of minutes, the tiger
turned away from its astonished
audience and swam towards an island
about 200m away. “It was swimming
fast, much faster than I have seen any
human swim,” he adds.
The heaviest
recorded tiger
weighed four times
the weight of
an average man.
X4
WWF.ORG.HK
Tel: (852) 2526 1011, Fax: (852) 2845 2734, Email: [email protected]
“WWF” is a WWF Registered Trademark
A tiger’s territory can
be as large as 39 sq km
– the size of 100,000
football pitches.
100,000
“The moment it saw us, it stopped
swimming,” says Chiranjib.
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Luckily, Chiranjib had his camera with
him, and managed to snap this amazing
picture.
Some of our field staff regularly catch
sight of wild tigers at close quarters - but
it’s a different story in the Sundarbans
Tiger Reserve in the Bay of Bengal. In
this vast area of impenetrable mangrove
forest, you can go years without ever
spotting a tiger – even though more
Bengal tigers live here than anywhere
else in the world.
Kamrita leaps
into action
Conservation
Climate Change
Sustainability
So it was a once-in-a-lifetime moment
for Chiranjib, a project officer with our
Sundarbans team, when he spotted this
tiger swimming just a few metres away
from his boat.
close encounters of the tiger kind
Tiger cubs are able
to catch and kill
their prey by about 11
months of age.
11 months
A large deer can
provide a single tiger
with a week’s
supply of food.
YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE
MY TIGERS • Issue 2
1 WEEK
Tigers in numbers
My tigers
© naturepl.com / Andy Rouse / WWF
What we did get is the more traditional
signs of tiger activity. Our researchers
found pugmarks and other signs of
Kamrita in the mud and grass, near to
where our cameras are placed. Sometimes
it’s just good to go back to
basics!
MY tigerS field report
one giant leap for kamrita
Park warden sees fleeting but amazing sight of
Kamrita in mid-air clash with male tiger
© WWF-malaysia / raymond alfred
It’s an amazing enough sight when a tiger
is spotted anywhere in the wild. But then
there are sightings that are so amazing
that, even if they last for just a few seconds,
they truly have to be seen to be believed.
This is exactly what happened to a lucky
park ranger and a researcher recently, as
they patrolled part of Chitwan National
Park. While walking through the dense
habitat looking for poachers’ snares and
signs of tiger activity, they suddenly
spotted Kamrita and a male tiger bumping
up against each other’s chests in mid-air!
According to the ranger, the arresting sight
only lasted a few seconds before both tigers
vanished. “It happened so quickly that
the researcher didn’t have time to take a
Tiger mother and cubs, Chitwan National Park
photograph,” says WWF’s Sabita Milla, who
works in the region. These opportunities
come only once in a lifetime, and we can only
imagine how awesome it would have been to
witness this sight in person!
Monsoon madness
Project location
Species: Bengal tiger
Location: Chitwan National
Park, Nepal
Nepal
Our dedicated field
staff have been out
in force protecting
Kamrita and the other
tigers in Chitwan. Our
anti-poaching team regularly combs the
area for evidence of snares and nets laid
for tigers. “This means we can usually find
tiger snares and remove them before they
become a danger to wild tigers,” explains
Sabita. Of course, there will always be
cases when poachers are successful. But
thanks to your adoption, our teams are
Field staff look for signs of tiger activity
doing everything they can to keep tigers
safe.
43
chitwan national park
is home to at least 43
species of mammals
MY tigerS NEWS
three reasons to smile
Trio of cubs bring hope to former poaching blackspot
The last few months have seen the monsoon
season unleash its full force on Chitwan
National Park. This is great news for tiger
habitat - the grasslands that tigers need
for shelter have bloomed and have become
thick, tall and lush.
Name: Kamrita, your
adopted tiger (pronounced
Kam-reet-a)
But in some cases, the grass has grown
so tall that it’s actually blocked tigers’
access to ‘corridors’ or ‘trails’ that they
use for getting from one place to another.
Wherever this has happened, we’ve cleared
the excess vegetation.
Heavy rains may be mainly good news
for tigers, but it’s not so good for getting
clear pics of Kamrita and family. Excessive
rainfall often causes the motion detector
system to fail, so we aren’t getting the pics
we’d like to see. In fact, out of 11 cameras we
didn’t get a single pic of Kamrita or other
the tigers.
The birth of tiger cubs is always a joyful
occasion. But when we spotted three
tiny cubs with their mother in the Panna
Tiger Reserve in central India, there was
particular cause for celebration.
In 1998 there were just 21 tigers in the
reserve, but by last year poachers had
killed them all. So we worked with the
government to help move one male and
two female tigers from other reserves, and
all three were guarded closely by rangers.
The birth of the cubs shows that they’ve
settled happily into their new home.
This is the first time a tiger that’s been
moved from another reserve - called
translocation - has given birth in the
wild. The success of the scheme raises
the prospect of translocating tigers into
other areas where they’ve been wiped
out - but only after we’ve worked to
ensure those areas are well protected.
s
Chitwan
National Park
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With your ongoing support, we’ll make
sure there’ll be more tiger births to report
across other parts of Asia.
Alongside this, we’re educating children
from the Pardi tribe that live around the
reserve to make sure future generations
can earn a living without resorting to
illegal hunting. Pardis are hunters by
tradition, and illegal traders often pay
them to poach tigers.
•
The new family face many challenges,
and we’ll be working hard to help the
cubs survive into adulthood. We’ve been
working with the Indian government
and local field staff to crack down on
poaching, and are keeping an eye on
the tigers through state-of-the-art radio
collars and remote surveillance systems.
We know that given the space,
protection and available prey they
need, tigers breed amazingly fast. This
means that such translocation schemes
have a high likelihood of success.
© WWF-india
After a couple of minutes, the tiger
turned away from its astonished
audience and swam towards an island
about 200m away. “It was swimming
fast, much faster than I have seen any
human swim,” he adds.
The heaviest
recorded tiger
weighed four times
the weight of
an average man.
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A tiger’s territory can
be as large as 39 sq km
– the size of 100,000
football pitches.
100,000
“The moment it saw us, it stopped
swimming,” says Chiranjib.
Cover image: © Anup Shah/Naturepl.com This page: © martin harvey / wwf-canon
Page 5
WWF-Hong Kong, Suite1002, 10/F, Asian House, 1 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
© 1986 Panda symbol WWF
Luckily, Chiranjib had his camera with
him, and managed to snap this amazing
picture.
Some of our field staff regularly catch
sight of wild tigers at close quarters - but
it’s a different story in the Sundarbans
Tiger Reserve in the Bay of Bengal. In
this vast area of impenetrable mangrove
forest, you can go years without ever
spotting a tiger – even though more
Bengal tigers live here than anywhere
else in the world.
Kamrita leaps
into action
Conservation
Climate Change
Sustainability
So it was a once-in-a-lifetime moment
for Chiranjib, a project officer with our
Sundarbans team, when he spotted this
tiger swimming just a few metres away
from his boat.
close encounters of the tiger kind
Tiger cubs are able
to catch and kill
their prey by about 11
months of age.
11 months
A large deer can
provide a single tiger
with a week’s
supply of food.
YOUR ADOPTION UPDATE
MY TIGERS • Issue 2
1 WEEK
Tigers in numbers
My tigers
© naturepl.com / Andy Rouse / WWF
What we did get is the more traditional
signs of tiger activity. Our researchers
found pugmarks and other signs of
Kamrita in the mud and grass, near to
where our cameras are placed. Sometimes
it’s just good to go back to
basics!
MY tigerS field report
one giant leap for kamrita
Park warden sees fleeting but amazing sight of
Kamrita in mid-air clash with male tiger
© WWF-malaysia / raymond alfred
It’s an amazing enough sight when a tiger
is spotted anywhere in the wild. But then
there are sightings that are so amazing
that, even if they last for just a few seconds,
they truly have to be seen to be believed.
This is exactly what happened to a lucky
park ranger and a researcher recently, as
they patrolled part of Chitwan National
Park. While walking through the dense
habitat looking for poachers’ snares and
signs of tiger activity, they suddenly
spotted Kamrita and a male tiger bumping
up against each other’s chests in mid-air!
According to the ranger, the arresting sight
only lasted a few seconds before both tigers
vanished. “It happened so quickly that
the researcher didn’t have time to take a
Tiger mother and cubs, Chitwan National Park
photograph,” says WWF’s Sabita Milla, who
works in the region. These opportunities
come only once in a lifetime, and we can only
imagine how awesome it would have been to
witness this sight in person!
Monsoon madness
Project location
Species: Bengal tiger
Location: Chitwan National
Park, Nepal
Nepal
Our dedicated field
staff have been out
in force protecting
Kamrita and the other
tigers in Chitwan. Our
anti-poaching team regularly combs the
area for evidence of snares and nets laid
for tigers. “This means we can usually find
tiger snares and remove them before they
become a danger to wild tigers,” explains
Sabita. Of course, there will always be
cases when poachers are successful. But
thanks to your adoption, our teams are
Field staff look for signs of tiger activity
doing everything they can to keep tigers
safe.
43
chitwan national park
is home to at least 43
species of mammals
MY tigerS NEWS
three reasons to smile
Trio of cubs bring hope to former poaching blackspot
The last few months have seen the monsoon
season unleash its full force on Chitwan
National Park. This is great news for tiger
habitat - the grasslands that tigers need
for shelter have bloomed and have become
thick, tall and lush.
Name: Kamrita, your
adopted tiger (pronounced
Kam-reet-a)
But in some cases, the grass has grown
so tall that it’s actually blocked tigers’
access to ‘corridors’ or ‘trails’ that they
use for getting from one place to another.
Wherever this has happened, we’ve cleared
the excess vegetation.
Heavy rains may be mainly good news
for tigers, but it’s not so good for getting
clear pics of Kamrita and family. Excessive
rainfall often causes the motion detector
system to fail, so we aren’t getting the pics
we’d like to see. In fact, out of 11 cameras we
didn’t get a single pic of Kamrita or other
the tigers.
The birth of tiger cubs is always a joyful
occasion. But when we spotted three
tiny cubs with their mother in the Panna
Tiger Reserve in central India, there was
particular cause for celebration.
In 1998 there were just 21 tigers in the
reserve, but by last year poachers had
killed them all. So we worked with the
government to help move one male and
two female tigers from other reserves, and
all three were guarded closely by rangers.
The birth of the cubs shows that they’ve
settled happily into their new home.
This is the first time a tiger that’s been
moved from another reserve - called
translocation - has given birth in the
wild. The success of the scheme raises
the prospect of translocating tigers into
other areas where they’ve been wiped
out - but only after we’ve worked to
ensure those areas are well protected.
s
Chitwan
National Park
Page 4
Page 3
Page 2
With your ongoing support, we’ll make
sure there’ll be more tiger births to report
across other parts of Asia.
Alongside this, we’re educating children
from the Pardi tribe that live around the
reserve to make sure future generations
can earn a living without resorting to
illegal hunting. Pardis are hunters by
tradition, and illegal traders often pay
them to poach tigers.
•
The new family face many challenges,
and we’ll be working hard to help the
cubs survive into adulthood. We’ve been
working with the Indian government
and local field staff to crack down on
poaching, and are keeping an eye on
the tigers through state-of-the-art radio
collars and remote surveillance systems.
We know that given the space,
protection and available prey they
need, tigers breed amazingly fast. This
means that such translocation schemes
have a high likelihood of success.
And yet so vulnerable. Sadly, the outlook for tigers may not be sunny
due to the impact of climate change. The latest evidence shows that an
increase in average global temperatures (from pre-industrial times) of
just 1.5°C would have devastating consequences for wildlife and people.
Our reliance on fossil fuels is at the heart of the problem. Dangerous
levels of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change are still being
pumped into the atmosphere. For WWF, tackling climate change is a
top priority. We’re taking action to help keep you and your adopted
animal safe.
For more information, visit wwf.org.hk/whatwedo/footprint/climate/
© Vivek R. Sinha / WWF-Canon
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