An Appeal by Participants of the International Youth Tiger Forum

(posted by Devanshu Sood)

The aim of the International Youth Tiger Forum held at Vladivostok, Russia from the 18th till the 24th of November, 2010 which was attended by youth leaders from around the world including us from India was to agree upon a Youth Decleration and a Global Youth Action Plan along with individual National Youth Action Plans for each of the participating nations which will be implemented by the youth leaders in their respective nations, to involve the youth in the conservation of the tiger not only in their own countries and regions but across the world and to make the voice of the youth heard in matters of tiger conservation. The Youth Declaration and Action Plans which were made at the Summit were then presented by us the Summit's participants to the Heads of States and other Delegations who had assembled at the International Tiger Conservation Forum, held at St. Petersburg, Russia from the 21st till the 24th of November, 2010 in the form of an appeal from the youth made by us on behalf of the youth of the world, to save the wild tiger.

In this post we have provided the Youth Decleration along with the Youth Action Plans that we came up with at the summit.

Let's Save the Tiger Together! - YTS Day 5

(Posted by Devanshu Sood)

Welcome Back 

First of all, I must apologise for the lack of daily blogs from the Youth Tiger Forum – we worked from early morning till late at night every day, with hardly a moment to spare.

Today was when we all sat down together and discussed our individual national youth outreach projects with the other delegates. The day began with a plenary session during which the presenters for the Television Up-link with the Heads of States summit being held at St. Petersburg in parallel with our summit were selected. I am proud to announce that the delegation of India was chosen along with those of Russia, Laos, China, Nepal and the United Kingdom as the presenters for the Television up-link. Following this we were given the broad contours along which our Global Youth Outreach project should be formulated.

For the rest of the day we were divided into three regional groupings to discuss our individual Youth Outreach projects which we will all implement in our own nations to involve the youth of our nations in tiger and environment conservation.