For the Year of the Tiger, a shared vision for the future of the iconic cat (commentary)

Abstract: "As the Year of the Tiger begins on February 1, a coalition of six top NGOs is committing to a cooperative approach to save the iconic big cat. In the past 12 years, tigers increased significantly in some areas but disappeared from others: a close assessment of these trends is key in advance of the next Global Tiger summit in September 2022. The authors from IUCN, FFI, WCS, WWF, Traffic and Panthera argue that ambition must increase but also that funders must support collaborative efforts instead of the status quo/competitive model of funding conservation."

Read More: https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/for-the-year-of-the-tiger-a-shared-vision-for-the-future-of-the-iconic-cat-commentary/

Emphasizing declining populations in the Living Planet Report

Summary: "The Living Planet Report, which has been published biannually since 1998, is key for understanding trends in wildlife populations and promoting sound conservation. Leung et al. recently disagreed with the conclusions of the Living Planet Report and found that the overall pattern of population declines stems from very few populations (extreme clusters), beyond which global vertebrate populations are not declining. However, when properly accounting also for the influence of the fastest-increasing populations, we find that the overall declines in the Living Planet Report are practically unchanged. Moreover, the Living Planet Database is heavily biased towards populations that receive more conservation attention, indicating that the true population trends are indeed dire and may actually be worse than depicted in the Living Planet Report.

Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04165-z