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Closing the financing gap for tiger conservation landscapes
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We All Want a Future With Tigers
The Tiger Landscapes Investment Facility (TLIF) has been created to channel private sector investments into businesses that contribute to the protection, restoration, and sustainable management of tiger landscapes. This will serve to enhance financial sustainability and deliver durable, positive biodiversity outcomes.
The aim of the Tiger Landscapes Investment Facility is to design and deploy an innovative, fit-for-purpose financing mechanism. Since the challenges and opportunities associated with the sustainable financing of biodiversity vary among countries, the mechanism should fit within each country’s context.
Tigers on the Brink
The tiger is not merely a species; it is a symbol, revered across and beyond its range, spanning belief systems, cultures, and generations. It is an apex predator recognized as the ultimate indicator of the health of the ecosystems it inhabits.
From an estimated population of 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the population of wild tigers had crashed to as few as 3,200 by 2010, with this small remnant restricted to around 8% of its former range. Today, the breeding populations of tigers are found in 10 countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, and Thailand.
2022 marked a turning point in the struggle to restore wild tiger populations. For the first time in the history of tiger conservation, the decline in wild tiger numbers was arrested, and global populations increased to 4,485 tigers. However, the increase has not been consistent across the tiger’s range. With the exception of Thailand, the population of wild tigers continues to decrease dramatically in Southeast Asia. Worryingly, the threats causing the decline have not disappeared and new threats have emerged. Tiger conservation needs to be urgently strengthened to achieve long-term success.
Read more in the Tiger Landscapes Investment Facility Brief
This 8-page brief outlines how large blocks of ecologically connected areas of suitable tiger habitat are imperative, how the TLIF will function, what makes it unique, and the anticipated impact.
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Tigers, Biodiversity, Climate and Livelihoods
Tiger landscapes are large blocks of ecologically connected areas of suitable tiger habitat. They are highly diverse, ranging from dense rainforests to open grasslands and from snow-covered regions to coastal swamps. These landscapes cover over 100 million ha of the current tiger range and over 70 million ha of tiger restoration landscapes, which could positively impact not just tigers and their prey, but also a vast array of biodiversity.
These areas also contribute to human well-being, locally and globally, through the provision of many ecosystem services such as clean water supply, carbon storage and sequestration, food security, medicinal plants, and benefits that support economic and spiritual health. Such large, ecologically intact areas are critical in supporting sustainable development, addressing the triple crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, and the rising threat of zoonotic diseases, along with providing the stable conditions essential for healthy, sustainable economies, and security for millions of people.
