Poaching for parts
Tiger bone, skin, and teeth still sell, and one animal is worth enough to justify a long walk into a reserve.
Your symbolic adoption supports the Wildlife Connect Tiger Fund, which provides funding to vetted organizations working to protect tigers and their habitats.
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| Item | $25 | $50 | $100 | $250 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold plated 2026 ornamentFree through December 20th, 2026 | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Personalized adoption certificate | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Collectible species cardFront and back | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| 8" plush | Not included | Included | Not included | Not included |
| 12" plush | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Wildlife Connect tote | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
The tiger is one of the few animals almost everyone can picture without being shown. What is harder to picture is the work behind the ones still alive: patrol teams walking the same forest routes week after week, camera traps checked and rebaited, snares pulled out of the undergrowth by hand, and the long argument for keeping a corridor open between two reserves.
A symbolic adoption puts your name behind that work.
Your adoption helps support the organizations protecting tigers and the forests they hunt in. There is real ground to hold here: tiger numbers have risen in India, Nepal, and Bhutan where protection has been funded consistently. The species is still Endangered, three subspecies are already gone, and the remaining populations are scattered across thirteen countries in fragments that are easy to lose.
And your adoption gives you something to keep.
You'll receive a personalized adoption certificate and a collectible, numbered species card that tells the story of the animal you're helping protect. At higher adoption levels, you'll also receive a tiger plush: a small, tangible reminder of something much bigger.
Because the best gifts don't disappear when they're opened. They spark curiosity. They start conversations. They remind us that a tiger moving through sal forest in central India is part of our world, too. Its future is something all of us can help protect.
Adopt a tiger. Help protect its forest. Become part of its story.
Population trend: decreasing. Tigers are Endangered on the IUCN Red List, and three subspecies, the Bali, Javan, and Caspian tigers, are already extinct.
Tiger bone, skin, and teeth still sell, and one animal is worth enough to justify a long walk into a reserve.
Roads and farmland separate populations, so a young tiger looking for territory has to cross open, dangerous ground.
When deer and wild pig are snared for bushmeat, a forest stops being tiger habitat even if no tiger is ever shot.
Tigers that take livestock are killed in retaliation, and the risk rises as settlements press against reserve boundaries.
Funds from our tiger adoptions go to the Wildlife Connect Tiger Fund, which supports vetted wildlife sanctuaries and conservation organizations working to protect tigers, their habitats, and the many species that live alongside them.
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