Announcing the Extraordinary Tigers for Tigers Challenge!
University of Missouri, Auburn University and Clemson University have joined forces with World Wildlife Fund to initiate a
friendly competition to see which school can raise the most money to
stop tiger farming and the illegal trade in tiger parts.
Learn more about the Tiger for Tigers Challenge here.
The world began the 20th century with eight different sub-species of tigers and around 100,000 individual tigers alive in the wild. By the beginning of the 21st century, three tiger sub-species had become extinct. A fourth has not been seen in the wild for 25 years.
The number of tigers and the size of the areas where they can live have both declined 95 percent over the past hundred years, and it is estimated that only 3,000 to 5,000 wild tigers now remain in the world.
Mizzou Tigers for Tigers is working to aid our understanding of tigers and enable them to survive.
Mizzou Tigers for Tigers was organized at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999 as the nation's first tiger mascot conservation program. Faculty, staff, students and alumni from the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Fisheries and Wildlife, the College of Veterinary Medicine, Journalism, Biological Sciences, Environmental Studies, International Center, University Affairs, Alumni Relations, Development, and Intercollegiate Athletics work together to ensure that there will be wild tigers as long as there are Mizzou Tigers.