We invite you to our home at TIGERS Preserve in beautiful Myrtle Beach, SC. Your wait is over! Our 2016 season is NOW OPEN. "Swim, Swing, Soar with our Tigers, Apes, Eagles & More!"
Make your family's
Summer reservations before we sell out!
Learn how you can meet these animal ambassadors, plus 100 more, at the world's most interactive wildlife experience:
www.myrtlebeachsafari.com
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Rare Species Fund
The Rare Species Fund
compliments the educational messages and field research of T.I.G.E.R.S.
To help in this life-changing cause, please visit
Considered to be "the greatest hands-on animal experience in the world", the Preserve transports you out of coastal South Carolina and straight to the savannas of Africa and the jungles of South America!
The VIP Wild Encounter Tour always contains a wide variety of exotic animal ambassadors that you will get to see and interact with. Cubs of various sizes, young apes, ligers and a whole assortment of others will be on display while visiting our Preserve located only minutes from Myrtle Beach.
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If you have your photo taken at Preservation Stations
during the 2016 season you will receive a $50 discount on your T.I.G.E.R.S. Preserve tour! Preservation Station is located at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach.
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2016 Season NOW Open!
Book your reservation and secure a spot on your own Myrtle Beach Safari!
T.I.G.E.R.S. Preserve and T.I.G.E.R.S. Preservation Stations were created as a wildlife education organization dedicated to promoting global conservation. With informative, educational and entertaining interactive programs, Dr. Bhagavan Antle has created a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Dr. Antle, Director, compliments the work of T.I.G.E.R.S. with critical on-the-ground funding of the Rare Species Fund. With all organizations functioning simultaneously, international wildlife conservation projects in North America, South America, Africa and Southeast Asia benefit greatly. Today's newsletter provides a glimpse of the types of stories and unbelievable facts that your family will learn throughout your tour of T.I.G.E.R.S. Preserve.
To make reservations for your family at the Myrtle Beach Safari over the phone, please call 843.855.2699, or click here.
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The Rare Species Fund has dedicated funds from the Save The Tiger, Save The World bracelets to supply lanterns and a charging station for an entire village located in central India.
The Problem
As the human population has expanded in India, people have encroached ever more into tiger territory. In addition, many tiger preserves were established around pre-existing villages. Currently more than 1 million people legally live within these preserves. These factors lead to human-tiger conflict. Many of these villages lack electricity and the locals must venture into tiger forests to collect wood for fuel, to burn for a source of light. Although well within the tiger's protected home, if a human intruder is attacked, the tiger is labeled a man-eater and is often hunted and killed.
The Solution
A primary reason villagers collect wood is light. By providing an alternative light source, locals would not have to resort to entering the tiger forests. The challenge is how to supply that light to a village without electricity and do so in an environmentally conscious manner. The answer has presented itself with recent technological advancements in low-power-usage rechargeable lanterns and high efficiency solar power charging stations. Working with on-the-ground local groups, the Rare Species Fund has recently supplied lanterns and a charging station for an entire village located on the buffer zone of the Kanha National Park in central India. This area is considered prime tiger habitat as an estimated 120 tigers currently exist over a 5000 sq. km. range.
Additional benefits:
- Communities who have always lived in darkness, now have a source of light.
- Children have an opportunity to study at night.
- Portable lanterns can be carried into the fields at night to keep vigil against crop raiding herbivores.
- Reduction in the burning of fossil fuels at night will have a positive effect on the health of the people.
- Communities derive benefit from this pro-conservation effort, having a positive effect on long term tiger conservation programs in the area.
Partnering in Conservation
The RSF is working directly with grass-roots conservation groups in India to supply lanterns to local villagers. Given their natural choice, tigers tend to avoid encounters with people...it is when they are pushed into a fight for survival that we see confrontations. Knowing this fact we have used funding from the sale of Save The Tiger, Save The World bracelets to offer this forward-thinking solution. The tiger is one of the most iconic animals on earth but the largest of the big cats is on the brink of extinction. Tigers are globally listed as "Endangered" on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Two of the remaining sub-species, Malayan and Sumatran, are "Critically Endangered." As recently as 100 years ago, as many as 100,000 wild tigers roamed across Asia. Today, about 3,200 tigers are left in the wild, occupying a mere four percent of their former range. This catastrophic population decline is driven by a range of threats, including poaching for the illegal wildlife trade, overhunting of prey species by local people, habitat loss and fragmentation, and human-tiger conflict. YOU are helping to improve this critical situation through your support of the Rare Species Fund and your visit to the Myrtle Beach Safari - the greatest hands-on animal experience in the world! 
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