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Keeping ecosystems healthy
 Treating Tigers
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Regulating disease. 
Restoring balance.
Training vets. Regulating disease. Restoring balance.
Training vets.
Regulating disease.
Restoring balance.
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Healthy ecosystems naturally regulate disease. Biodiversity loss unbalances them. The proportion of human diseases originating in other animals has increased substantially in recent decades and is now 75%. 

But what if the same wildlife was actually key to our protection from global pandemics?

Act now to save keystone species like vultures that can protect the health of other wildlife, livestock and of humans.

#OneHealth. #OnePlanet. #Vets4Vultures

Why donate during The Big Give Green Match Fund?

Simply because we have £5000 of funding available to match online donations between 12 noon on Thursday 20 April and 12 noon on Thursday 27th April, thanks to the Reed Foundation.

By raising our overall target of £10,000 we aim to support the health of our planet by providing specialist wildlife veterinary training to identify, tackle and regulate disease and together we will restore the balance that is part of the life support system for our planet.

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Misunderstood until it was almost too late

Vultures are among the most misunderstood and least appreciated species on the planet. And yet, as nature’s most efficient scavengers, capable of disposing of millions of tons of carrion every year, they play a vital role in balancing natural ecosystems. Find out more here.

In Asia, their numbers crashed catastrophically in the 1990s, largely due to accidental poisoning with the drug diclofenac. India alone had lost 99% of its vultures by 2007. Today, the cattle graveyards that used to be serviced by vultures are an environmental and human hazard, responsible for sharp increases in feral dog numbers, with a knock-on effect on the incidence of diseases like rabies.

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You can clearly see that vultures are misunderstood and have huge characters. Percy has been involved with vulture breeding for reintroduction since the first Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre was set up near Pinjore, Haryana, India

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Vulture Champion and avian vet Dr Percy Avari with a Himalayan griffon vulture (Gyps himalayensis) at the Bombay SPCA that he helped rehabilitate.

Photo credit: Bombay SPCA

An instant ban in the sale of diclofenac helped stem the demise

Thanks to intensive conservation work, vulture populations in Asia are recovering slowly, but given their small numbers they remain very vulnerable to threats like disease. WVI will facilitate the exchange of expertise, and train vets and rehabilitators in vulture range states to make sure that both wild and captive-reared birds have the best chance of survival. Find out more here.

A vision for vultures

Securing a safe future for vultures will help restore ecosystem balance, to the benefit of all species, humans included. Ultimately, we want to see people and wildlife not just surviving but thriving. 

In a healthy, uncompromised ecosystem, a suite of different vulture species, with different dietary predilections, will assemble to rapidly and efficiently consume a carcass in its entirety.

Photo credit: Dr Jessica Bodgener

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Together we can make a difference

Be a Vulture Champion! Act today so we can provide veterinary expertise to those vets and biologists working on the conservation frontline to make sure that vultures can continue to play their vital role in safeguarding the health of our planet.

We want to build long-term relationships with well-established in-country Conservation Partners within the SAVE Vultures Consortium. You can provide on the ground training, support and advice to build local capacity for securing the captive, insurance population, monitoring the health of wild populations and dealing with injured and sick vultures.

Our Veterinary Partners are wildlife vets and vet nurses who have specialist expertise which they want to share with colleagues on the conservation frontline who have less access to wildlife medicine training and knowledge.

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29th Nov - 6th Dec

imagine our world without tigers

Training Vets.
 Tackling Disease.
 Treating Tigers.
29th Nov - 6th Dec

Imagine our world without tigers

DONATE
Training Vets
 Tackling Disease
 Treating Tigers
ONE DONATION - TWICE THE IMPACT
29th November - 6th December

Imagine our world without tigers

Donate
Training Vets
 Tackling Disease
 Treating Tigers
ONE DONATION - TWICE THE IMPACT
ONE DONATION
DOUBLE THE IMPACT!
29th Nov - 6th Dec

IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TIGERS

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Training Vets.
 Investigating Disease.
 Tackling Conflict.

WVI trains local vets to treat ill or injured tigers, tackle disease which might harm them, and safely reintroduce them to the wild.

But we can’t do this on our own.

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We need people like you to help us train more vets to work on the conservation frontline and save these iconic big cats.

Double your Gift. Double the Impact. 

Your donation will go twice as far if you give between 29th Nov and 6th Dec.

We are aiming to raise £30,000 to train more vets to identify and tackle illness, treat injured tigers and safely reintroduce them to the wild

We have £15,000 of match-funding available. That means that every £1 you can give will be doubled, thanks to the generosity of the Metamorphosis Foundation, The Gibbings Family Charitable Trust and The Reed Foundation.

Click  here to find out more about how The Big Give Christmas Challenge works.

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Why do we do what we do?

As humans encroach more on their territories, tigers are at increasing risk from snares, poachers’ bullets and diseases like distemper. Many tiger populations are in decline, edging ever closer to extinction. Tiger numbers have dropped by more than a staggering 95% over the last century*.

When numbers of endangered animals are critically low, the survival of every single one is crucial to saving the species; we want to give every remaining tiger the best chance of a healthy life.

Training more local vets to ensure a healthier future for tigers.

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Photo credit - Ksenia Goncharuk

What do we do?

WVI trains local wildlife vets to treat ill or injured tigers and safely reintroduce them to the wild. We build long-term relationships with in-country conservation partners, providing practical support and advice for healing and rehabilitating sick animals and investigating any disease threats.

Training for tiger anaesthesia in field conditions, China, 2017. Photo Credit: WCS

  • We train local tiger vets, biologists and village response teams in how to care for tigers that may have got into conflict with humans, been caught in traps or cornered by frightened villagers, or been injured in fights with other animals over shrinking territory;
  • We train vets in best rehabilitation practices, including anaesthetic and clinical techniques;
  • We train vets to take and test biomedical samples correctly, providing advice on how to mitigate any disease threats that are discovered;
  • We provide remote and in-person technical assistance to our local partners, through workshops and research projects, and help establish disease testing facilities. 
  • Our work with tigers has so far supported vets and conservationists in Nepal, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Russia, while our partnership with The Wild Tiger Health Project helps tiger professionals in all tiger range states access and share vital information.

How we do it?

By protecting the tiger and their landscapes, we can help make these ecosystems more resilient to the effects of climate change – fires, winds, drought, flooding and landslides. A healthy ecosystem means the people who live in those areas are safer. At a regional level, these habitats contribute towards sustainable water supplies, food security and economic opportunities. On a global level, the conservation of the tiger and their landscapes can help mitigate CO2 levels, climate change and the emergence of zoonotic diseases.

Preparing injured wild tiger cub for assessment, Primorsky Krai, Russian Far East. 2020. Photo credit -  Ksenia Goncharuk

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Together We Can Make a Difference

Time is running out for tigers. Please give today to save these magnificent cats. Your generous gift will be doubled by donating during The Big Give Christmas Challenge. meaning we can train more vets to save tigers.Read more about our tiger work here

“Populations of tigers have halved in my professional lifetime. As conservationists we can no longer afford to ignore the threat that disease represents for remaining populations.”

Dr Martin Gilbert, Wildlife Vet and Epidemiologist, Cornell University.
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The historical number of tigers comes from ‘Securing a viable future for the tiger’ (WWF, WCS, FFI, TRAFFIC, Panthera and IUCN, 2021). Current data comes from WWF.

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by sharing veterinary skills and training local staff

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is an ever growing part of successful conservation

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Please support our Tiger Health Programme

Wildlife Vets International has always been closely involved with tiger conservation around the world.
Help us provide veterinary support for conservationists saving these species.

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Saving species from extinction is a complicated puzzle.
There’s no quick fix and the challenges we face are immense.

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You are the missing piece of the puzzle. Help train more people on the conservation frontline to use veterinary science to complete the picture.

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Poaching, habitat loss and pollution are just some of the huge problems that are made worse by unexpected outbreaks of disease.

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