In this year 2010, the Year of the Tiger, the Global Tiger Initiative launched with a conference including the 13 countries that govern tiger habitat. The conference was in Kathmandu... (neutral ground? Or where the best facilitators are?) in late October. During the four days, aims and objectives were established to protect tiger habitat which has reached 10% of the historical range, and make efforts for valuing live tigers rather than dead ones.
This HT article talks about Nepal's initiative to count their tigers starting next week. Only full grown tigers will be counted. Estimates were at 121 tigers in Nepal two years ago.
World Bank is involved: this is their tiger website.
Youtube has a page for GTI.
(read some of the reports on the gti website to see if any are appropriate for the Chitwan reader... final report summary? other academic papers? how can we link this in with lectures the students will hear? ask anil and watch youtube pieces to see if any are appropriate for viewing with the students)
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