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WWF and RESOLVE. 'Tiger Conservation Landscapes.' Accessed through Global Forest Watch on [date]. www.globalforestwatch.org

Tiger Conservation Landscapes

*Tiger Conservation Landscapes* Dinerstein, E., Loucks, C.J., Wikramanayake, E., Ginsberg, J., Sanderson, E., Seidensticker, J., Forrest, J.L., Bryja, G., Heydlauff, A., Klenzendorf, S., Mills, J, O'Brien, T., Shrestha, M, Simons, R., Songer, M. 2007. 'The fate of wild tigers.' BioScience 57 (June 2007): 508-14. *Tx2 Tiger Conservation Landscapes* Wikramanayake, E., Dinerstein, E., Seidensticker, J., Lumpkin, S., Pandav, B., Shrestha, M., Mishra, H., Ballou, J., Johnsingh, A.J.T., Chestin, I., Sunarto, S., Thinley, P., Thapa, K., Jiang, G., Elagupillay, S., Kafley, H., Pradhan, N.M.B., Jigme, K., Teak, S., Cutter, P., Aziz, Md. A., Than, U. 2011. A landscape-based conservation strategy to double the wild tiger population. Conservation Letters, 4 (3):219-227. *Terai Arc Landscape corridors* Wikramanayake, E., M. McNight, E. Dinerstein, A. Joshi, B. Gurung, D. Smith. 2004. Designing a Conservation Landscape for Tigers in Human-Dominated Environments. Conservation Biology (18):839-844.

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English

These three data sets, produced by WWF and RESOLVE, show the location of current tiger habitat and priority areas for habitat conservation. *Tiger Conservation Landscapes: * Tiger Conservation Landscapes (TCLs) are large blocks of contiguous or connected area of suitable tiger habitat that that can support at least five adult tigers and where tiger presence has been confirmed in the past 10 years. The data set was created by mapping tiger distribution, determined by land cover type, forest extent, and prey base, against a human influence index. Areas of high human influence that overlapped with suitable habitat were not considered tiger habitat. *Tx2 Tiger Conservation Landscapes: * This data set displays 29 Tx2 Tiger Conservation Landscapes (Tx2 TCLs), defined areas that could double the wild tiger population through proper conservation and management by 2020. *Terai Arc Landscape corridors: * This data set displays 9 forest corridors on the Nepalese side of the Terai Arc Landscape (TAL). Corridors are defined as existing forests connecting current Royal Bengal tiger meta-populations in Nepal and India.

These three layers show the location of current tiger habitats, areas of habitat expansion, and critical tiger corridors.

Tiger Conservation Landscapes were created under the assumption that suitable habitat depends on quality and size of land cover and prey base. Land cover data was problematic in certain geographies due to the presence of tree plantations. In some cases, forest cover was overestimated or underestimated. The tiger location database, on which this data set was built, is incomplete for some regions, and the data comes from a variety of sources and research methods.

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