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Important Update:

Thank you to everyone who has donated through CreateaFund. Just to let you know, we've shifted our fundraising efforts over to the website: www.tigercampaign.com, and the overwhelming majority of people have donated directly through the site. You are still very welcome to make donations/ pre-orders here - it all goes through to our Paypal account! But, just in case you thought we we were neglecting you, or are wondering where the rest of the donations have gone, they are here: www.tigercampaign.com.

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Unless laws and attitudes change - and fast - Tigers are in serious danger of becoming extinct. By celebrating the beauty of wild tigers and raising awareness of the dangers that threaten their survival, the dakini Tigers Campaign seeks to make people the world over understand how crucial and urgent this issue is. By growing the campaign to include thousands - perhaps millions - of voices worldwide, and ensuring that the campaign’s message is projected through major newspapers in multiple countries, we will turn this pressure on the politicians who are in a position to act. By making it clear to these key decision-makers that the people and the media are crying out for them to make laws and policies that can protect tigers, we may just succeed, together, in saving tigers from extinction. 

To give it the most fighting chance, the campaign must do all these things by the time of the Heads of State Tiger Summit in September, when representatives from all tiger-range countries will come together to discuss what needs to be done to secure the future of tigers. This is the first Summit of its kind and it is essential that the delegates know that the eyes of the world are watching them, and expect them to not just talk, but to act.

For the campaign to work, it must have enough members to convince the delegates that the world is truly concerned about tigers. It will not be enough for one small organisation to make a stand. We need a crowd.

If enough of you get involved with the campaign, we will be able to send to every delegate a breathtakingly gorgeous book showcasing just how awe-inspiring wild tigers are. In the book will be a list of every person and organisation who has worked together to achieve this. It will be a visual petition, but one that is far too precious to simply ignore. Meanwhile, we will take the book’s content to major newspapers and magazines all over the world and allow them reprint its content for free as a way of propelling the issues, the book, the campaign, and the amazing work of the charities we are working with into the public eye.

You can become part of the campaign in one of several ways:

 1     You can chip in a donation of US $10 or more, which will allow us to include your name in the book as part of the ‘crowd’.

2     You can make a donation of $25 or more, which will allow us to include your name in the book, and send you a PDF/e-book version of this.

3     You can pre-order your own copy of the hardback book for $45 (£29)*, which will make the campaign possible, and will also include a 30% donation directly to our tiger charity partners. Your name will also be in the book, and you will have this beautiful record of the part you played in the campaign to keep forever. Just make a donation of the amount or more and remember to include your address and P&P for postage*.

4     Spreading the word. Tell your friends, your family, your colleagues - anyone you think would like to help with the project. If your employer offers matched funding, please make sure they know about your donation!

 *Please remember to add on P&P when making your pre-order, to cover the cost of sending the book to you. This will be: $7.99 (£4.99) within the UK, $9.99 within the EU and $13.99 Rest of world.

Together, we need to raise $100,000 – the equivalent of 3000 pre-orders – to make this project possible.

About the Book

We are working with award-winning photographers from John Downer Productions, internationally acclaimed wildlife writer Carol Kaufmann and an expert team of advisors from all over the world to produce Tigers, a beautiful book following the real-life struggles of a lone tigress, rearing her cubs in the wild. The book is to be a large-size, hardback, photo-led, gorgeously-written and designed work of art, to truly show off the beauty of tigers in the wild.

30% of all funds raised will go directly to carefully-selected tiger charities, to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. The rest of the money will pay for the book to be made and the campaign to be run - because we cannot save tigers without raising awareness and changing people's perceptions.

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