The Remembering Wildlife organisation has announced its latest book, Remembering Tigers, the ninth book in a series designed to bring attention to threatened species.
Image: Marius Coetzee/Remembering Tigers
More than 280 wildlife photographers have contributed to the Remembering Wildlife series since it started in 2016, working under the banner Wildlife Photographers United.
The organisation says it has now raised over £1.15m GBP ($2.22m AUD) for 74 conservation projects in 33 countries.
Image: Sergei Gorshkov/Remembering Tigers
There are only around 5,500 tigers left in the wild and they are now restricted to just 10% of their historical range. Sales from RememberingTigers will be used to fund conservation projects in areas where they are vulnerable.
The latest book features work from many of the world’s top wildlife photographers, including Art Wolfe, Jonathan and Angela Scott, Greg du Toit, and Sergey Gorshkov.
Image: Sachin Rai/Remembering Tigers
Weighing up to 260kg and measuring up to 3 metres in length, the tiger is the largest of the big cats. It is found in Asia, from India – where two-thirds of all wild tigers live – through to the Russian Far East and into China.
Its habitat ranges from sub-tropical forests to snow-covered mountainous terrain. Numbers are increasing in some areas, thanks to conservation efforts, yet the tiger is the least numerous of all the large wild cats and is listed as ‘endangered’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Image: Andy Parkinson/Remembering Tigers
The series of books was created by wildlife photographer Margot Raggett MBE after she saw a poached elephant in Kenya and set out to make the most beautiful book on a species ever seen.
She persuaded the world’s best wildlife photographers to donate an image and Remembering Elephants came out in 2016.
Her vision created a series, with Remembering Elephants followed by Remembering Rhinos, Remembering Great Apes, Remembering Lions, Remembering Cheetahs, Remembering African Wild Dogs, Remembering Bears, Remembering Leopards – and soon-to-launch ninth book in the collection, RememberingTigers.
Image: Archna Singh/Remembering Tigers
More than 50,000 copies have been sold so far.
She was awarded the MBE in the King’s Birthday 2023 Honours List for services to international wildlife conservation.
“It’s an oft-quoted fact that there are more tigers in captivity in the U.S. than there are left in the world, a stark reminder of how the future of tigers might end if conservationists do not continue their focus and their fight," she said.
Tigers are a bellwether for the health of an ecosystem.
For every tiger protected in the forest, there are plants, trees, insects, birds and other mammals who thrive.”
