Researchers radio-collar a tiger in Bangladesh.Established in 1995 by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Save the Tiger Fund issued 336 grants totalling $17.3 million between 1995 and 2009. These funds amounted to around one quarter of all philanthropic funds spent on tiger conservation globally.
Funding has focused on the following activities:
- Scientific research of tiger ecology and monitoring of tiger numbers to improve our understanding of tigers' needs.
- Education and outreach activities to build public support for tiger conservation. Anti-poaching patrols to enforce wildlife protection laws.
- Leadership training to emerging M.S. and Ph.D.-level conservation leaders. Trafficking-reduction activities to combat the global demand for and supply of tiger parts.
- Habitat restoration and acquisition.
- Sustainable development projects that improve livelihoods of people living in tiger landscapes.
- Zoo breeding programs to secure genetically viable populations of tiger subspecies in the world's zoos.
- Human-tiger conflict reduction.
See a list of Save the Tiger Fund’s grantees.
Read the final reports of Save the Tiger Fund’s grantees.
Funding was allocated to 13 different tiger range countries from 1995-2007:
| Country | Amount | Number of Grants |
| Russia | $ 3,598,553 | 72 |
| International | $ 3,068,712 | 35 |
| India | $ 2,019,910 | 68 |
| Indonesia (Sumatra) | $ 1,960,325 | 33 |
| Nepal | $ 1,369,626 | 26 |
| China | $ 942,946 | 19 |
| Cambodia | $ 749,480 | 15 |
| Thailand | $ 657,413 | 16 |
| Malaysia | $ 503,548 | 9 |
| Bhutan | $ 323,885 | 7 |
| Myanmar | $ 248,265 | 5 |
| Lao PDR | $ 125,000 | 3 |
| Bangladesh | $ 111,000 | 3 |
| Vietnam | $ 49,000 | 2 |
| Total | $ 15,727,663 | 313 |
