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Siberian Tigers are endangered. Once freely roaming across the Russian Far East, the Koreas and China,
they were hunted to the brink of extinction in the early 1900's during the building of the Chinese Eastern railroad. In 1947,
hunting was banned and from that point until very recently, the tigers have co-existed peacefully with the Russian people.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, borders have opened and there has been an increase in foreign trade
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The biggest threat to tigers has been from the Asian medicine market. Some societies believe
that the body parts of the tiger, used as medicines, will cure them when they are sick. There is no proof that tiger parts
cure anything, but still many people believe that they do. Every year many tigers are killed just for their body parts and
in the past three years alone, more than 100 Siberian tigers have been killed illegally for this medicine market. Another
threat to tigers is logging. One third of the world's trees are found in Russia. Logging companies are competing with each
other to come to Russia and harvest those trees. The clear-cutting methods used by the logging companies to harvest the trees
leave no home for tigers or other animals in the forest.
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Why Sponsor A Siberian Tiger?
Siberian Tigers are the largest cats in the world. Fewer than 500 of them remain in the Russian
Far East. The Siberian Tiger Project is successful in studying these beautiful cats and in developing a conservation plan
for their continued survival.
Friends of the Forest, in conjunction with the Siberian Tiger Project of Hornocker Wildlife
Institute, offer sponsorship programs for the Siberian Tiger. With your help, we can all continue working towards the goals
of helping to save them from extinction and of securing a home in the wild for them so that future generations will also know
the beauty of this, the biggest cat in the world.
Your Siberian Tiger Adoption Kit contains:
(Click here for a picture of adoption kit)
- List of animals to adopt
- Adoption Registration Card
- 18" x 24" full color poster
- Display envelope
- Informational brochure
- Bumper Sticker
And, when you return the completed Adoption Registration Card, you will receive:
- Official Adoption Certificate, including a color photograph of your adopted animal
- A one-year newsletter subscription
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