Think for Tigers Initiative
In 2016, our founder and director Courtney Dunn won the Think for Tigers idea competition put on by the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in collaboration with World Animal Protection.
The Think for Tigers Initiative is geared toward improving existing methods and identifying new ways to track and monitor tigers in the wild in order to better study and protect them. The Prusten Project’s study of social vocalizations of tigers was selected by a panel of judges from World Animal Protection and the University of Oxford's WildCRU, Department of Zoology and Department of Computer Science to receive the challenge prize.
Winning the competition has given us the opportunity to conduct field studies in India’s Pench Tiger Reserve. Courtney Dunn traveled to the reserve in April 2016 and will return there in December 2016.
We are excited to be working with Oxford and World Animal Protection on revolutionizing the way tigers are monitored in order to save them.
The Think for Tigers Initiative is geared toward improving existing methods and identifying new ways to track and monitor tigers in the wild in order to better study and protect them. The Prusten Project’s study of social vocalizations of tigers was selected by a panel of judges from World Animal Protection and the University of Oxford's WildCRU, Department of Zoology and Department of Computer Science to receive the challenge prize.
Winning the competition has given us the opportunity to conduct field studies in India’s Pench Tiger Reserve. Courtney Dunn traveled to the reserve in April 2016 and will return there in December 2016.
We are excited to be working with Oxford and World Animal Protection on revolutionizing the way tigers are monitored in order to save them.
Courtney Dunn in the Kanha-Pench Landscape area of India as part of the Think for Tigers Initiative.