Conservation
It's Global Tiger Day—How Is the Effort to Save Them Going?
Overall, badly. Instead of the 25,000–50,000 that should be living in the wild, we're urged to "celebrate" a miserable 5,000 with annoying frequency
Stories by K. Ullas Karanth
The Trouble with Tiger Numbers
The science of surveying these elusive cats has advanced dramatically, but conservation agencies lag behind
Conservation
Tiger, Tiger, Being Tracked
Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth talks about his July, 2016, Scientific American article on state-of-the-art techniques for tracking tigers and estimating their populations and habitat health...
Sustainability
Along the Tiger's Trail: Trapping Season Begins
Editor’s Note: “Along the Tiger’s Trail” is a series about the efforts to monitor tigers and their prey in the Malenad landscape in southwestern India that harbors one of the world's largest population of wild tigers...
