A One Year Journey...
Tigers in Crisis launched in 1998, and over the last 13 years hundreds of thousands of people have requested millions of pages of information about endangered tigers from the website.
The number of visitors and page views to Tigers in Crisis doubled between 2010 and 2011, so it is apparent the interest in tigers is not waning, but rather increasing. This is a good thing.
Over the years I have made a number of ‘updates’ to both the design and content of Tigers in Crisis, and now I embark on another update. However this will be a ‘major’ update and the first phase will be implemented over the course of the next year.
I am doing the same for the Bagheera and Endangered Earth websites and that effort will be reflecting in the Endangered Earth Journal.
Tigers, all subspecies, are still endangered.
There is a great deal of new information about tigers available, and many new technologies to share that information. There are also a number of efforts (both new and ongoing) to save the tigers.
However, there are still many challenges (new and ongoing) facing endangered tigers, and the question of whether tigers will continue to survive in the wild, and for how long, remains unanswered.
For the South China tiger the question is whether it will continue to survive at all.
My ultimate goal is to make sure anyone visiting Tigers in Crisis, or any other of my tiger websites, has the best information about endangered tigers available. This is not a simple goal, but it is an important goal. And it is a continuation of an effort which has been on-going on for 13 years now.
Updating the Tigers in Crisis website will be a discovery of about tigers. What is being done (or not) to save them? Who is taking (or not taking) action to save them?
The information will be gathered from a variety of sources including governments, tiger experts and individuals. It will also include information about laws, entities and organizations that are somehow connected to the issues of endangered tigers.
While I am exploring the world of tigers, and updating the Tigers in Crisis website, I will be sharing that information through this journal.
a tiger journal.
