Help Save the Tigers that can’t Save Themselves - Support TigerTime!

Hello, my name is Madison. Before I start I would just like to thank you very much for showing an interest in my Blog! My blog is about TigerTime- a social media based campaign to prevent the wrongful killing, poaching and illegal trading of Tigers. You may already know about TigerTime and the great work it does, but if you are not familiar with TigerTime I hope to inform you about them. You may already be aware of what horrific things are happening to the Tiger, you may also be aware of the catastrophic drop of the amount of Tigers in the wild but do you know the full extent of it? Are you also aware of the fact that humans are the cause of all of this? If not I hope to raise awareness of this issue.

TigerTime was founded by David Shepherd in Spring 2011, for his 80th birthday and so TigerTime is now a campaign of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.

At this current moment in time there are roughly 3,200 Tigers left in the wild. The tiger has lost over 90% of its original range, within a few years the numbers will fall so low ‘they will pass the point of return’ and become extinct.

TigerTime is fighting to stop this; there used to be about 100,000 tigers, but due to consumer demand for Tiger parts  poaching is the greatest threat to survival for the Tiger. Tigers are being wrongfully poached for their skins, bones, claws and teeth, of which are highly valued for their use in traditional Asian medicine. Parts from a single Tiger can make as much as $50,000 (approx. £30,000!) so as you can see Tiger parts can make the Poachers a lot of money but that does not make it okay, if this continues and we don’t all stand up and be the voice for the tiger, then future generations may only know the most beautiful of big cats as a zoo animal or a museum exhibition.

Donations for Tigertime go to the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Tiger projects in India, Thailand, and the Russian Far East. Including anti-poaching patrols, undercover investigations, educational programmes and monitioring activities.  Tigertime has a growing supporter base with approximately 274,000 supporters, whilst that may sound a lot, that only works out at 85 supporters per tiger left in the wild. Many more supporters are needed to save the tigers that can’t save themselves.

Tigertime has many famous personalities supporting them such as:

• Stephen Fry
• Ricky Gervais
• Joanna Lumley OBE
• Sir Paul McCartney
• Pamela Anderson.

And many more.

Here’s a link to a speech by Joanna Lumley about TigerTime; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cFdbh8qyJM
Here is also a link to TigerTimes website; http://tigertime.info/
The link to their Facebook page is also here; https://www.facebook.com/TigerTimeNow
 
I hope I’ve informed you about Tigertime and the threat Tigers face. We cannot allow this beautiful cat to fade away; as Stephen Fry said “If nature has made anything more beautiful than the Tiger then I do not know what that might be”

Thank you very much for taking your time to read my blog it is very much appreciated, if you could please take a moment to answer the following questions, that would be very much appreciated! If you do please may you also state your country and hometown, that would be great!

• Had you heard of TigerTime before?
• Do you now feel more informed about the risk Tigers face?
• Would you now consider/be prepared to:

• Donate to TigerTime?
• Sponsor a Tiger?
• Tell your family and friends?
• Sign up on the TigerTime website to become a supporter?

- And finally, before you had read my blog what was your knowledge/understanding of the poaching of Tigers?

Once again, thank you very much for taking the time to read my blog, Madison!

~Don’t let future generations only know of the Tiger as a zoo animal or a museum exhibition~