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Tiger Conservation Campaign Tiger Conservation Campaign Website: www.mnzoo.org/tigercampaign Facebook: Mike Dulaney www.facebook.com/tigercampaign AZA Tiger Species Survival Plan ® YouTube: Spring/Summer 2014 Update http://youtu.be/kSBmv5AoGCg A note from Tiger Conservation Campaign Coordinator, Dr. Tara Harris Flickr (photos): The Amur tigers may have enjoyed I have another reason to be excited the long, cold winter we had here too. Our list of major supporters grew www.flickr.com/groups/ at the Minnesota Zoo, where the so big over the past several months tigerconservationcampaign Tiger Conservation Campaign is that it no longer fits on our headquartered. But I sure am glad newsletter’s front page! I’m so that spring is here and that we can grateful for your support, and hope bring you the next edition of our you will enjoy reading about how newsletter. I’m excited to share your contributions are making a with you the latest news from the difference for wild tigers. Thank you for field! helping secure a future for wild tigers! Global Tiger Day is July 29th! Plan a party for Panthera tigris! Make and sell orange and black Global Tiger Day is just around the bracelets. corner. Here are some ideas for Hold a tiger art contest. what you can do to raise awareness and funding for tiger Have a garage sale or car wash to conservation. benefit tiger conservation. Host a tiger-themed art or bake Look for the Tiger Conservation sale. Campaign’s Facebook post on Partner with a local restaurant or Global Tiger Day, then share it sports team to raise awareness widely! and funds. Set up a tiger face painting station. Let us know what you’re planning, Flickr Fan: Steve Thompson Hold a tiger-themed race. and send us photos of your activities! Tiger Conservation Campaign update, Spring/Summer 2014 Thank you for supporting tiger conservation! In 2014, the Tiger Conservation We are incredibly thankful for all the support we’ve received! Thanks Campaign is especially to the following zoos and organizations that have contributed supporting six the most ($500 and above) to our supported projects in the past year. conservation See also our Supporters page. projects – two for each tiger subspecies managed by the Tiger Species Survival Plan. These projects are conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society’s field staff. Brandywine Zoo, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Connecticut’s WCS-Indonesia Setting up camera traps for a survey Beardsley Zoo, Dakota Zoo, Fort Wayne Zoo, Fresno Chaffee Zoo, Potawatomi Zoo, San Francisco Zoo, Tulsa Zoo, Blank Park Zoo, Brec’s Baton Rouge Zoo, Dallas Zoo AAZK, Detroit AAZK, Henry Vilas Park Zoo, Honolulu Zoo, Houston Zoo, Little Rock Zoo, Peoria Zoo, Phoenix Zoo, South Florida AAZK, Vidtiger, and our generous individual donors. Fun fundraisers and events! Microsoft Zoo Tycoon video game players met their community challenge, triggering a $10,000 donation to the Tiger Conservation Campaign to reduce tiger-human conflict in Sumatra! Watch the video we helped create: http://youtu.be/29F-yE9FgX8. The Tiger Conservation Campaign was excited nd to speak at the 2 National Tigers for Tigers Fun fundraiser: Zoo Tycoon video game Summit. This group of dedicated students from colleges and universities around the country are working to save their mascot – the tiger! Thanks to Delta for sponsoring our flight to the summit, and to the University of Missouri for hosting us! Minnesota Zoo’s young professionals group, AZUL, raised $10,000 for the Tiger Conservation Campaign! Their most recent event, Wild Night, attracted more than 200 guests for a fun-filled gala in downtown Minneapolis. Awesome action: Tigers for Tigers Summit Page 2 Tiger Conservation Campaign update, Spring/Summer 2014 Amur tiger conservation WCS-Russia In the Russian Far East, approximately 350-400 wild Amur tigers remain. Recent estimates indicate that tiger populations are increasing at some important “source sites”. But one of the largest protected areas, Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve, continues to feel the effects of a 2009 canine distemper outbreak. In November 2013, some good news arrived when the first new resident female tiger in two years appeared on camera traps in the reserve. This photograph, along with the recent discovery of a litter of two cubs in a neighboring territory, is important evidence that the tiger population in the reserve is rebounding. The first new resident female tiger in two years Understanding the canine distemper virus that captured on camera-trap in the southern Sikhote-Alin afflicted the tigers in this area continues to be a Biosphere Reserve. priority that our campaign supports. The local Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences (IBBS) now has the materials and expertise to rapidly diagnose canine distemper virus infections. This With poaching of tigers and their prey being a major threat means that test results can be obtained in days to wild Amur tigers, our campaign is also supporting WCS- or even hours, instead of several months. To Russia’s efforts to improve anti-poaching efforts. At the date, three tigers have been tested at IBBS for heart of these efforts is the implementation of a strategy canine distemper virus, with all testing negative. that uses technology to hold anti-poaching teams Three hundred samples from wild carnivores accountable for their work, provides incentives to those have also been tested, with 15 positive for that do a good job, and empowers wildlife managers with canine distemper. One of the next steps is to information to improve patrolling. attempt to sequence the genome of the virus, to help identify the source of the infections. Anti-poaching effort and results continue to improve at three of the four protected areas where this anti-poaching strategy has been active since 2011-2012. The fourth site has a new director who is supportive of the strategy. Importantly, the anti-poaching strategy was expanded to a fifth protected area, Ussuriiskii Nature Reserve, in December 2013. Federal Russian laws have recently been modified to increase fines and make poaching easier to prosecute. Combined with the increased effort from anti-poaching patrols, we are already seeing positive results. Some recent examples include: • At Land of the Leopard National Park, anti-poaching teams broke up an illegal logging ring and levied fines equivalent to ~$19,000. • In Lazovskii Nature Reserve, a patrol team tracked WCS-Russia down a poacher who had just killed a sika deer. The poacher was prosecuted and received a two-year Russian veterinarian, Misha Gonchuruk, monitors an anesthetized raccoon dog. suspended sentence fine equivalent to ~$4,500. Biological samples are obtained to test • Also in Lazovskii, the Central Patrol Team caught an for canine distemper virus. inspector from another team poaching. The inspector was fired and given a 2.5 year suspended sentence. Page 3 Tiger Conservation Campaign update, Spring/Summer 2014 Sumatran tiger conservation The Indonesian island of Sumatra is home to critically endangered Sumatran tigers. With your support, the Tiger Conservation Campaign funds efforts to reduce tiger-human conflict, stop illegal habitat loss (see pg. 6), and shut down the illegal trade of tigers and their parts. Since July 2013, the Wildlife Crimes Units (WCUs) we support have been involved in the investigation and arrest of 17 people involved in the illegal wildlife trade. A number of these people trade in tigers. For example, an investigation of a suspected WCS-Indonesia buyer of baby primates led the WCUs to a new Recent investigations resulted in the arrests of suspect, “Jonie Rambo”. Jonie sold tigers, Javan suspected buyers, suppliers, traders and middlemen leopards, clouded leopards, sun bears, involved in the trade of tigers, primates, and more. wallabies, orangutans, gibbons, hornbills, birds of paradise and other protected wildlife to buyers in Indonesia. After 1.5 years of WCU investigation, Central Java police and WCU From March 2013 – April 2014, teams also responded to finally arrested Jonie on March 7th, 2014. 20 reports of tiger conflict in 13 villages in the villages near Gunung Leuser National Park. We’re happy to report The tiger-human conflict mitigation teams we that no tigers were killed or removed from the park due support have also been busy. From June – to conflict during this period! WCS teams found signs of December 2013, they visited 228 villages in tigers in ten of these villages. In five villages where tigers northern Sumatra to discuss levels of human- had recently killed livestock, conflict mitigation teams wildlife conflict. A number of remote villages and villagers used homemade air cannons and reported histories of tiger-human conflict. These firecrackers to push the tigers back into the forest. The newly uncovered reports will help prioritize future teams also held village meetings to discuss strategies for actions to reduce conflict. reducing conflict with tigers. They also constructed tiger- proof livestock enclosures, to prevent further conflict. WCS-Indonesia Patrol teams discovered an adult tiger trapped by pig snare. The tiger was freed and returned to the wild. Page 4 Tiger Conservation Campaign update, Spring/Summer 2014 Malayan tiger conservation WCS-Malaysia The Tiger Conservation Campaign supports WCS’s on-the-ground efforts to protect wild Malayan tigers. WCS has been active in Malaysia for the past seven years. Field teams continue to learn more about the local wildlife, and are constantly evolving techniques to combat poaching. The illegal presence of foreign agarwood collectors in the project area is a current threat to Malayan tigers. These collectors kill both tigers and their prey, in addition to posing a severe threat to the agarwood trees. From June 2013 – May 2014, anti- poaching teams supported by the Tiger Conservation Campaign covered ~1,500 A curious young Malayan tiger was photographed miles with foot patrols, and even more via during a camera trapping survey vehicle, motorcycle, and boat.
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