TY - ADVS AU - Te Wiata,Rima AU - Ballance,Alison AU - Tourell,Wayne AU - THOMAS,Richard ED - Natural History New Zealand Ltd. TI - Tigers: fighting back T2 - On the brink : preserving endangered species U1 - 333.9522 PY - 2010/// CY - Dunedin, N.Z. PB - Natural History New Zealand KW - Tiger KW - India KW - Indonesia KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Russian Far East KW - Wildlife conservation KW - Wildlife refuges KW - Endangered species N1 - "To save wild tigers you must first understand them"--Container; Executive producer, Wayne Tourell, Richard Thomas; senior producer for WCS, Steven Fairchild; production manager, Chris O'Connell; music, Trevor Coleman; editor, Peter Simkins; Narrator, Rima Te Wiata N2 - Biologists working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in the far east of Russia, the Indonesian jungle and India's forest, work to save the tiger from extinction. Over the last century the population of tigers have plummeted by 95 percent due to poaching, the demise of free land space and the demand for medicine made from tigers. The challenge to give them food, room and protection to ensure the survival of tigers is an issue each government must face as they tailor their own rescue packet to suit local conditions. Wildlife Conservation workers unite by a common passion to give tigers a fighting chance and restore their population ER -