Evaluating the performance of a decade of Save the Tiger Fund's investments to save the world's last wild tigers

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-265

  Gratwicke, Brian ^a   Seidensticker, John ^b   Shrestha, Mahendra ^a   Vermilye, Karin ^a   Birnbaum, Matthew ^a  

^a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental evaluation; Measuring conservation outputs; Outcomes; Panthera tigris; Philanthropy; Threat mitigation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MAMMALS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC POLICY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION; MEASURING CONSERVATION OUTPUTS; PANTHERA TIGRIS; PHILANTHROPY; THREAT MITIGATION;

CONSERVATION;

FELID; MITIGATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; POLICY; POLITICS; SCALE UP; TECHNOLOGY; TIGER; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE;

PANTHERA TIGRIS;

EID: 36749025110     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892907004079     Document Type: Article

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