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photo taken by Gerald S. Post
"Knowing there are tigers in the forest makes the world a greater place."
-Gerald Post
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Join Endangered Encounters for an expedition organized to help save one of the world’s
most magnificent animals, an animal whose strength and skill are legendary but whose
extinction becomes more and more imminent, the Bengal Tiger. At the beginning of the
twentieth century there were an estimated 40,000 tigers in India, now by most estimates
there are between 2700-4500.
Travel deep into one of the world’s most bio-diverse areas the Western Ghats. Your guides and speakers are some of the leading scientists and conservationists in the world and their knowledge of Bengal tigers is one of the expedition's biggest highlights. Their important
work and the funding from this expedition are an integral component to saving one of the most
magnificent animals ever to walk the earth.
This amazing region supports not only Tiger viewing but within this tropical and beautiful
district live Asian elephants, dholes (Indian wild dogs), lion-tailed macaque, Nilgiri tahr
and Gaur. The Ghats serve as the main watershed for the rest of peninsular India. There are
eight National Parks or Reserves in this incredible region and they are able to support a
high population of ungulates, enough to meet the needs of not only tigers, but also India’s
other large carnivores, leopards and dholes. All of which culminates for a once in a lifetime
wildlife expedition and some of the best wildlife viewing opportunities in the world.
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