SAVE-THE-TIGER WALK '97 WCWC launches a massive effort to raise money to save tigers from extinction
If there is one animal that will galvanize the world into undertaking the drastic conservation measures needed to avoid an ecological catastrophe on Earth, it's the tiger. Wild tigers epitomize the wild earth. Their declining numbers measure how fragile our connection to mother nature has become. With an estimated total of only 5,000 individuals remaining of all tiger subspecies, and an estimated loss of two tigers a day world-wide to poaching and habitat loss...time truly is running out.
Save-the-Tiger Walk '97 will be held in Vancouver, B.C. on Saturday, October 18, 1997, the first day of World Rainforest Week. The goal of the walk is to raise a significant amount of money to save the tiger, because lack of funds is a major reason why efforts to protect the tiger have not yet succeeded. /p>
The walk is sufficiently short--only 5 kilometres--to allow the youngest of tiger-lovers to participate. There will be fun events at the end of the walk for children and adults alike to celebrate the tiger. Hundreds of volunteer organizers are helping out. With the participation of dozens of students from each of the several hundred schools in Vancouver's Lower Mainland, and pledges averaging $30 each, the Save-the-Tiger Walk '97 has the potential to raise a major pool of funds. It will also help raise the public and media awareness needed to deliver wild tigers from the dire straits they're in.
Please participate. There is only one decade left to save the tiger. Please, for the tiger, act now!
