Reducing poaching in Russia, allowing Siberian Tigers to increase from 100 to over 400 in the wild. Our Asian Conservation Awareness Programme message, 'When the Buying Stops, The Killing can Too', has reached over 40 million homes across Asia with the support of film idol Jackie Chan. Funding undercover operations of Africa's first Task Force of regional enforcement officers. Uncovering ivory cartels in Zambia, seizing thousands of pounds of ivory and arresting poachers. However Some experts predict that on present trends, tigers may be extinct in the wild by the year 2010.
Survival depends on overcoming human ignorance and persecution.
As the new millennium dawned a comprehensive Snow Leopard Conservation Plan was in place. Below is one of the few remaining rhinos. She was shot and her horn cut off for medicine while she was still alive.