Vanishing Treasures programme
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Getting Climate-Smart with the Royal Bengal Tiger in Bhutan
This brief is one of three in a series that also includes the mountain gorilla and the snow leopard, produced under the Vanishing Treasures programme. Its goal is to highlight how climate change is – and will be – impacting the conservation of the Royal Bengal tiger in Bhutan.
The brief examines how climate change has multiple, and often interacting, impacts on the Royal Bengal tiger – be it on its physiology, on the ecosystems and prey species on which it depends, or on the behaviour of humans living in its surroundings – with important feedback loops that directly the conservation of this magnificent animal.
Status: Completed
Type: Brochures and Briefs
Author: United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal
Year of publication: 2020
Publisher: UNEP
Place of publication: Nairobi, Kenya
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