Beyond the Stripes

The report 'Beyond the Stripes' by WWF International demonstrates that tiger conservation serves as a catalyst for broader environmental and human benefits. It highlights how protecting tiger landscapes safeguards biodiversity hotspots, secures water for millions, mitigates climate change through carbon storage, and supports local economies and traditional cultures across Asia.

• Tiger habitats are critical for global biodiversity, overlapping with four biodiversity hotspots, 332 Key Biodiversity Areas covering 22 million hectares, and 10 UNESCO natural World Heritage sites.
• Protecting tiger landscapes secures essential water resources for up to 830 million people through nine globally important watersheds.
• Forests protected for tigers act as high-value carbon sinks and store more carbon on average than other forests in the region, aiding in climate change mitigation.
• Tiger habitats provide significant disaster risk reduction; 75 per cent of tiger landscapes are categorized as having high or extremely high flood risk, and healthy ecosystems in these areas buffer against floods, landslides, and storm surges.
• Conservation of tiger habitats supports other endangered flagship species, including the Asian elephant (over 30 per cent overlap), Sumatran orangutan, and Sumatran rhinoceros.
• Tiger conservation provides substantial economic value; for example, a single tigress in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve generated over US$103 million in tourism revenue in her first decade.
• There is a strong correlation between tiger habitats and biocultural diversity, with nearly one-quarter of endangered languages in the tiger range spoken by people living alongside tigers.
• Reintroducing tigers can drive large-scale ecological restoration, as seen in plans for Cambodia's Eastern Plains Landscape and Kazakhstan's Amu Darya Delta and Balkhash Lake coast.

APA

Stolton, S., & Dudley, N. (2017). Beyond the Stripes. WWF International. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/352/99xulvkun0_BEYOND_THE_STRIPES_WEB_VERSION.pdf

Chicago

Stolton, Sue, and Nigel Dudley. Beyond the Stripes. WWF International, 2017. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/352/99xulvkun0_BEYOND_THE_STRIPES_WEB_VERSION.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stolton2017beyond, author = {Stolton, Sue and Dudley, Nigel}, title = {{Beyond the Stripes}}, institution = {WWF International}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/352/99xulvkun0_BEYOND_THE_STRIPES_WEB_VERSION.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }