WWF is supporting partners with innovative tools to improve site-based management in tiger habitats and protect and restore ecological connectivity. Tools such as Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS) help to identify and address financial, technical, and capacity gaps which can prevent tigers and their prey from thriving in an area.

Connectivity between protected areas is critical to allow tigers and other wildlife to move between areas of habitat. WWF is working to restore degraded wildlife corridors, protect existing ones, and advocate for new areas of connectivity for tigers and biodiversity across WWF's 22 tiger landscapes.

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WWF is also working to recover and protect tiger prey populations through reintroductions, monitoring, climate-smart habitat improvement, and minimising disease risk.

Tiger landscapes are social landscapes. WWF is partnering with Indigenous Peoples and local communities living in tiger landscapes to ensure they benefit from tiger conservation and their voices are integrated into tiger conservation decision making; which is essential as we work toward sustainable long-term conservation efforts.

Rapid economic growth, climate change, agriculture, and infrastructure expansion is likely to increasingly bring tigers and people into shared spaces. WWF is partnering with communities to make sure tiger conservation projects are made with, and not for, communities. Reducing the costs and risks of tiger projects and living with tigers, especially managing human tiger conflicts to locally accepted levels is critical to improve coexistence and secure the conservation gains of the last decade.

The exploitation of tigers and their prey is a major threat to wild tigers. WWF is working closely with partners to advocate and deliver the Zero Poaching Framework which focuses on building a highly trained and professional area-based workforce. It’s critical that this workforce has the support of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in order to reduce the pressure of poaching on tigers and their prey. 

Poachers target tigers because of the value and demand of illegal tiger products across Asia. Every part of a tiger is sought after, even their whiskers. To reduce this demand WWF is using social and behaviour change strategies to address consumption  and reduce demand. WWF is also working with partners to strengthen law enforcement efforts to intercept and deter the criminals trafficking tigers and their parts and products.

Political will and financing are the foundation of successful tiger conservation, as seen in countries such as Bhutan, India, and Nepal over the last decade. WWF is working with partners in the Tiger Conservation Coalition to leverage large-scale sustainable financing for tiger landscapes and improve political support for tiger conservation priorities.