India, April 22 -- World needs to invest $1 billion over next decade to conserve tigers and their habitats across the continent

A whopping $1 billion are needed over the next decade to conserve tigers and their habitats across Asia. The Bhutanese government is hosting the Sustainable Finance for Tiger Landscapes Conference on Earth Day 2024 to mobilise the funding, according to a statement.

The two-day conference will be hosted by Bhutan under the patronage of the country's queen, Jetsun Pema Wangchuck. It seeks to mobilise the aforementioned amount in new funding over 10 years for the preservation of tiger landscapes, which are vital to maintaining biodiversity, sequestering carbon, supplying resources to over 100 million people, and e...