An Experience Unmatched - From India with Love - Devanshu Sood

(posted by Devanshu Sood) 

Landing in Vladivostok on 18 November, with the flight attendant's comforting words “it’s fine weather outside” when the temperature was -12 degrees Celsius, seemed a blessing after the unexpected experience at Moscow airport due to a ‘technical error’ in my visa. The 8 days I spent in Vladivostok, Russia, along with the 27 delegates from 14 countries, at the International Youth Tiger Summit organized by the Russian Government, in association with the United Nations and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, were truly special.

Lets Save Our Wild Tigers - Together - Appeal to the Heads of States and Other Delegates at the St. Petersburg Summit on Tiger Conservation

(posted by Devanshu Sood)

Today was the day for which we all had been preparing for throughout the course of our summit. We were to address the Heads of States and the other delegations present at the St. Petersburg International Tiger Forum in the form of an appeal from us the Youth, not only those of us who had assembled at our summit at Vladivostok but the entire youth of the world whom we represent at the summit.

An Appeal by Participants of the International Youth Tiger Forum

A Walk Through the Snow - YTS Day 4

(posted by Devanshu and Anusha)

Hello, Hi and Namaste.

While yesterday began with me and my roommate nearly missing the bus as we had slept in, today began with the two of us being the first ones at the dining hall. And for the first time in my life I walked below a night sky to reach a dining hall for breakfast!

Today was our day at the Kedrovaya Pad state nature reserve, which is located two and a half hours away from Vladivostok.

Day 2 at YTS

(posted by Devanshu Sood)

Hi everyone,
Here goes day 2!

We began the day with the gala opening ceremony at the Vladivostok State University of Economy and Service. This was attended by the Governor of Primorsky Province (in which Vladivostok is) S. M. Dar'kin; the Consul General of India in Vladivostok; the Consul General of Vietnam in Vladivostok; Igor Chestin, WWF - Russia's CEO, and all of us, the delegates from the different tiger nations. It was covered extensively by the Russian media- both the print and television.

Welcome

Welcome!

We have started this blog to promote awareness about tigers and their conservation. We, Devanshu Sood and Anusha Shankar, are WWF’s Youth Tiger Ambassadors, and have been chosen to attend the Youth Tiger Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, from the 18th to the 25th of November, 2010. Following our return from the Summit, we will be working with WWF to help protect the 3200 tigers in the world, especially the 1400 or so remaining in India in the wild (about half the world's wild tiger population).

About the Youth Tiger Summit:

There are 13 countries worldwide which still have tigers in the wild, although the numbers are very low. Without immediate strong action, the next few years will be catastrophic for wild tigers.