We invite you to our home at TIGERS Preserve in beautiful Myrtle Beach, SC. Only 4 months left in our 2016 season! "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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Incredible 2016 Season Is Selling Out!
Book your reservation (see coupon below) 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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MB Safari is home to the Rare Species Fund
The Myrtle Beach Safari is home to the Rare Species Fund where tourism dollars help support grass-roots international wildlife conservation efforts. RSF staff participate hands on in the field helping to ensure the survival of some of the world's most endangered species. By putting essential money and equipment directly into the hands of people implementing the programs, RSF ensures the greatest value for every dollar spent. To date, the Rare Species Fund has provided more than $1 million to conservation efforts worldwide. Your support through TIGERS Preservation Stations, TIGERS Preserve, Myrtle Beach Safari and the Rare Species Fund has helped to make this happen!
Massachusetts
For the past thirty years, the RSF program Tale of the Tiger in Carver, Massachusetts, has entertained and educated millions of visitors. A favorite among the many rare animals is Hercules the liger: 900 pounds, 12 feet tall, and holder of the Guinness Book of World Records as Earth's biggest cat.  South Carolina
The Institute for Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (T.I.G.E.R.S.) is a unique fifty-acre wildlife preserve in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Founded in 1982, the Preserve and its satellite Preservation Stations have received upwards of forty million guests who have had the unique and transformative experience of up-close encounters with some of the world's most beautiful and endangered animals.
The Preserve houses more than 100 rare and endangered animals and is, in the words of one guest, a zoo times a zillion (Charlotte Observer). Participants in daily tours are inspired by the opportunity to caress the soft fur of a lynx, smell the sweet aroma of a binturong, and witness the heart-pounding chase of tigers running at 45 miles per hour. During these encounters guest connect with wildlife in a manner not available at any other facility. Many have become active in conservation efforts as a result of these experiences. They leave with images that only a few privileged photographers and explorers on safari have captured after years of travel: a tiger or cheetah running at full speed or swimming across a clear pool, great apes sliding through a jungle canopy, an elephant just a breath away. Florida
At Jungle Island, Miami's premiere family attraction, RSF has built a state-of-the-art home for some of the world's rarest animals: a white lion, two royal white tigers, and two snow tigers. Throughout the year, other big cats make their appearance including black panthers, lynx, spotted leopards, cougars, and the world's biggest cat: the liger. Guests enjoy up-close encounters with other rare animals including orangutans, chimpanzees, binturongs, gibbons, and capuchin monkeys.
Brazil
RSF funds assisted the Smithsonian Institution taking battery-operated televisions into the South American rain forest to show remote villages and rural populations a short film of the beauty of jaguars and other South American mega fauna. Due to habitat destruction millions of children and adults who inhabit this region never see these animals in the wild, and the film was part of a widely heralded project to educate the native people about their own natural resources. The film was shot using Inca, an adult male jaguar raised at the T.I.G.E.R.S. Preserve.
Jaguars from the Preserve were also used as key characters in the film Jaguar, Year of the Cat made by Nature for international broadcast. This program included the only film clips in the world of a mother jaguar and her cubs in a wild setting.
RSF is currently supporting a program that reimburses farmers for livestock lost to wild predators, including jaguars. This initiative ensures that the predators do not become a financial liability for the farmers and are therefore less likely to be illegally poached. The RSF rewards farmers in the program who set aside a minimum of twenty percent of their land to be kept in its natural wild state. This ensures a viable habitat for the jaguar and other indigenous wildlife such as tapirs, monkeys, toucans, sloths, caiman, and spectacled bears. 
Chile
Founded in 1996, the Small Wildcat Conservation Foundation works to ensure the survival of small wild cats and their natural habitats worldwide. The Foundation works with local partners in such regions as the Andes, China, Sumatra, and Tibet to identify and mitigate threats to the world's small wild cats such as the Javan fishing cat and the rarely seen desert-dwelling sand cat. These and other rare cats are listed as vulnerable and critically endangered on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. RSF supports IUCN efforts to protect the world's smallest endangered cats.
Believe it or not but this has only touched on projects in NORTH AMERICA and SOUTH AMERICA. Watch for next month's newsletter to discuss ASIA and AFRICA. Find out more about the many international projects being helped by your participation in the Myrtle Beach Safari by visiting the Rare Species Fund website. Both anti-poaching and conservation efforts for rhinos, elephants, chimpanzees, lynx, tigers, ligers, orangutans, gibbons, apes and more are explained in more detail here: Rare Species Fund. To see these amazing species up close and personal, visit www.myrtlebeachsafari.com/signup to get started on your own interactive tour!
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