World Wildlife Fund Celebrates Chinese Year of the Tiger with New Website

Posted on February 23, 1998

World Wildlife Fund's Year for the Tiger Web site is an interactive glimpse into the shrinking and endangered world of wild tigers. Tigers are some of the most fascinating and endangered creatures in the world: with only 6,000 remaining, wild tigers could be extinct within a decade.

WWF says its Year for the Tiger Web site explores the world of tigers and our fascination with these magnificent animals. Users can access a wide range of information about tigers -- including rotating tiger facts, threats to the tiger's continued survival in the wild, and why saving the tiger is one of the most urgent tasks facing conservationists at the close of this century.

The Year for the Tiger site is the online companion to several tiger-related initiatives that WWF is launching in early 1998 to coincide with the Chinese Year of the Tiger. Year for the Tiger site users can take matters into their own hands by sending free faxes and emails to their representatives. Year for the Tiger also features a message wall, where participants can post their own messages about tigers and their plight in the wild.

Year for the Tiger's Fun Stuff section includes several tiger-related features, including a cut-out paper tiger (with directions for printing, cutting, and folding into a desktop tiger), an interactive tiger quiz, and a slide show of signature WWF photography. More fun features will be added during the year-long life of the site.

With its Year for the Tiger site, WWF hopes that the "Year of the Tiger" can be an auspicious opportunity to bring people together in the cause of tiger conservation, and to ensure that we leave our children a planet on which tigers still roam wild.