Okay, so next week will see the third of this year’s major tiger summits, this time in Bali (second if you don’t count CITES). The idea is that these will be building up to the Year of the Tiger summit in St. Petersburg in September…
So what is on the table? Well it is still hard to tell, but according to the Jakarta Post, the Indonesian government is proposing $175 million to double Sumatran tiger numbers. If they are willing to put this on the table it is significant… even if spread over five or ten years it is not peanuts – especially given that all the money invested by NGOs on tigers only comes to about $70 million over the last ten years…. and spread over 13 countries….
Will update when I know what is happening…. but in the meantime this figure of $175 million is encouraging. If it is real.
Year of the Tiger 2010 