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.

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.