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Sanderson, E.W.; Forrest, J.; Loucks, C.; Ginsberg, J.; Dinerstein, E.; Seidensticker, J.; Leimgruber, P.; Songer, M.; Heydlauff, A.; O'Brien, T.; Bryja, G.; Klenzendorf, S.; Wikramanayake, E.
Setting priorities for tiger conservation: 2005-2015
2010  Book Chapter

This chapter summarizes the essential findings of _Setting Priorities for the Conservation and Recovery of Wild Tigers: 2005-2015 _(hereafter TCL 2.0). We outline the datasets and methods used, present the essential results, and set measurable conservation goals against which future efforts-successful or otherwise-can be measured. The guiding principles of TCL 2.0 are: 1. ensuring that the concept of 'tigerness' (representation of ecological distinctions of tigers across different habitats) stays central to the prioritization of conservation investment across the range; 2. securing known breeding populations as the highest priority, because they will be the source populations for the future recovery of tigers; 3. identifying zones of high connectivity between and among TCLs so that in the future we can re-create natural landscapes that protect tigers and other species; 4. planning across the tiger's entire historical range for the next one hundred years, while recognizing that near-term efforts will focus in the current range; and 5. using methods and datasets that are rigorous, transparent, and up-to-date, with the capacity to update them in the future as new information becomes available. Taken together, these principles or building blocks enable us to begin thinking about the concept of meta-TCLs, large areas of connected habitat spanning vast areas of the tiger's range. Over the long-term, we think it is easily possible for Asia to recover 100,000 tigers in the wild by the year 2100, starting with the landscapes we define here.

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