The RSF (Rare Species Fund) was established to provide funding to critical on the ground international wildlife conservation programs, thereby complimenting the educational messages and field research of T.I.G.E.R.S.
About the RSF: Rare Species Fund
The Rare Species Fund was established to provide funding to critical on the ground international wildlife conservation programs, thereby complementing the educational messages and field research of T.I.G.E.R.S The Fund receives it financing base through a percentage of revenues taken in by T.I.G.E.R.S, the generosity of donations form exhibit guests, and the general public.
The Rare Species Fund actively supports the African Association of Zoos and Aquaria (PAAZAB) in its efforts to improve African zoo collection management, captive animal husbandry, and public educational messages. On a Continent where millions of wildebeest make an annual migration of several hundred miles, covering a huge swath of two countries, accompanied by zebra and other plains game, as well as many rare and endangered predators, almost 99 per cent of all African youth will never see any of these animals in their natural habitat.
The RSF is doing its part to help educate the citizens of this continent to appreciate the wealth of their wildlife diversity and the threats to its continued existence in Africa.
In 1982, conservationist Dr Bhagavan Antle was introduced to a Siberian tiger cub by a zoo director visitng his clinic.
Animal-lover Antle was so enthralled by the the tiger that he founded The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare
Species (T.I.G.E.R.S.) - a wildlife education organization, dedicated to promoting global conservation in an interactive
and entertaining way.
Testimony of Bhagavan "Doc" Antle Director of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species before the House
Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife January 27, 2010
Thank you Madam Chair, Ranking Member Brown and Members of the Subcommittee. On behalf of T.I.G.E.R.S., I am honored to be before you today to provide public comment on H.R. 4416, the "Great Ape Conservation Reauthorization Amendments Act of 2010". The United States&rsquote leadership in the conservation of these species around the world is vital to their survival.
