You Can Help Tigers!

Hold an event or sale

Use the following suggestions to come up with your own way to raise donations for the Tiger Conservation Campaign!  Be sure to give it a tiger theme!  For events or contests – raise funds for tiger conservation by charging admission or asking for donations.  And be sure to check on your local/state rules for some of these ideas (like holding a raffle).

• Fun run/5k
• Potluck dinner or barbecue
• Costume or themed party
• Benefit concert/music day
• Fashion show
• Environment/animal-themed play (theatrical)
• Silent auction
• Benefit dinner
• Photo contest (with entry fee and prizes)
• Bake sale or coffee & doughnut sale (use it to raise awareness about sustainable palm oil and coffee!)
• Coin boxes - have participants make/paint tiger-themed coin boxes and collect donations
• Black and orange tie dye t-shirt sale
• Photography/art/craft sale
• Yard/garage sale
• Grow plants from seeds and then have a plant sale
• Raffle
• Car wash
• Partner with a local sports team with a tiger mascot on a fundraising project
• Partner with your local zoo on a tiger fundraising project

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Get sponsored to do something

Get family, friends, and/or businesses to sponsor you, as a way to raise funds and awareness for tiger conservation.

Ask people to sponsor you and your friends to:

Raise awareness

• Like” the Tiger Conservation Campaign’s Facebook page and share our posts with your friends
  
• Take photos of tigers at your local zoo and share them with others, along with tiger conservation information and post them to our Flickr page
  
• Start a tiger-themed blog
  
• Volunteer at your local zoo and talk to people about tigers
  
• Host a tiger-themed booth or table at a local fair or farmer’s market
  
• Ask your local newspaper or TV station to help you promote your tiger conservation activity or event
  
• Ask your local stores to carry paper and wood products (for example, printing/copy paper, toilet paper, lumber, furniture) that are FSC-certified or have high post-consumer recycled content
  
• Contact companies that make products containing palm oil and let them know that this is an issue that concerns you (learn here about the American teenagers who won a UN award for raising awareness about the palm oil issue!)

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Cleaning and Bath Products, Cosmetics, and Foods
Demand for palm oil - found in many common cleaning and bath products, cosmetics, and foods - threatens tiger habitats in countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia. In order to grow the palm trees that produce the oil, vast tracks of native forests that support tigers, their prey, and other endangered species are destroyed. You can help tigers by supporting companies that pledge to use sustainably harvested palm oil.

Learn more about these issues and find shopping guides:
http://www.cmzoo.org/conservation/palmoilcrisis/
http://a-z-animals.com/palm-oil/information/
http://www.rspo.org/
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/palm_oil/

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Paper and Wood Products

Healthy forests are important not only for wild animals like tigers, but also for people. Wood from large trees is used to make printer/copy paper, toilet paper, furniture, houses, and more. Sadly, many of the trees in Asia’s forests are currently being removed faster than they can re-grow, resulting in deforestation. In addition to limiting the future production of wood products used by people, deforestation also leads to habitat loss for wild animals, such as tigers and their prey, that live in forests. Since it is unrealistic to completely stop the removal of trees from forests for human use, awarding countries and companies that practice responsible forest management may be the best solution to reduce deforestation and minimize impacts on tigers. You can help by buying paper and wood products that have the Forest Stewardship Council certification. Also look for paper products, including toilet paper, with a high percentage of post-consumer recycled content. Some items, such as furniture, you can also buy “used”.

Learn more about these issues and what you can do to help:
http://www.fsc.org/
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/forestry/certification/
http://wwf.panda.org/how_you_can_help/live_green/fsc/tissue_issues/

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