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With an aim to spread awareness on conservation of tigers and wildlife among the common mass, internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Sunday created a marvelous sculpture of a tiger at the Puri sea beach.
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There are different ways to raise awareness on the terrible situation of tigers.
Sudarsan Patnaik did it very originally: with sand!
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Following a celebrated premiere staging at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, the new stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s bestselling 2001 fantasy adventure novel Life of Pi will move to London’s West End next spring. Previews will begin on June 22, 2020 ahead of a July 9 opening night at Wyndham’s Theatre.
Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Max Webster, Life of Pi takes place after a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There are five survivors stranded on a single lifeboat: a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a sixteen-year-old boy and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?
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Yes, tigers will perform on stage on West End in London, as the theater version of the controversial movie Life of Pi will be enchanting people there too.
This time in the theater it will happen with puppets and not with real tigers, which made the movie highly controversial (despite the effects used).
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Population by Pixel, shows how close animals are to extinction by how pixelated they are. The images are made up of as many pixels as there are animals left of that particular species.
It was created by agency Hakuhodo C&D / Tokyo and was the brainchild of creative directors Nami Hoshino, Yoshiyuki Mikami, and designer Kazuhiro Mochizuki.
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What happens if you create a photograph of wild animals based on their numbers?
This article shows how photographs look like if their resolution in pixels is in accordance with their numbers in the wild.
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Illinois artist Deke Weaver will premiere a solo multimedia performance this fall with stories of man-eating tigers and the devastating impact of climate change.
“TIGER” is the fifth performance in Weaver’s project “The Unreliable Bestiary,” which will present a performance for each letter of the alphabet, representing an endangered animal or habitat.
“A lot of the shows end up becoming shows not about animals in particular, but more about our relationship with them and how we humans are relating to animals and relating to their habitats,” said Weaver, a professor of new media in the University of Illinois School of Art and Design.
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A US artist’ professor in multimedia will perform a solo multimedia performance in several US cities.
The reason for this is to raise awareness on what’s happening with tigers and on climate change.
We only can say: book this guy also for international stages!
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Tigers Are Not Afraid is a fairy-tale nightmare that takes place in a world that’s all too real. As a drug war rages around them, a group of orphans band together in a part of Mexico City that’s become a ghost town—meaning empty and deserted, but yes, also haunted by angry spirits.
Since its 2017 film-festival debut, Tigers has racked up awards worldwide and writer-director Issa López has been showered with praise from high-profile admirers like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro—whose own work, particularly 2001’s The Devil’s Backbone, feels like spiritual kin to Tigers—even went out of his way to give López a shout-out at his recent Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
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Interview with movie director Issa López that used a zoo tiger for a movie – that was originally without tigers – because the tiger was available. Nothing more and nothing less.
Despite the quality of the movie and the work of the director the way they deal with a tiger is a perfect example of how people respect endangered animals.
We believe this has to change.
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Machli, the legendary tiger queen of Ranthambhore National Park of Rajasthan, who won millions of hearts across the globe, is still making news. A film, which was made on the tigress, has won the Best Environment Film award at the recently concluded 66th National Film Awards.
The 60-minute documentary titled The World’s Most Famous Tiger was directed by four-time National award winner filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu. Nallamuthu says, “It’s my fifth National award and that is definitely making me happy. This film is my way of protecting the tigers and creating awareness about tiger conservation. It was also an attempt at pulling viewers into the world of tigers. Machli died at the record age of 20 years giving birth to nine cubs at the sanctuary and creating a gene pool for 50 tigers.”
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Machli, the legendary tiger queen of Ranthambhore National Park of Rajasthan, who won millions of hearts across the globe, is still making news.
Now with a movie called “The World’s Most Famous Tiger” by Indian filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu. The movie won a National Film Award and tells the chronicles of Machli’s rise to power, and the extraordinary legacy she left behind.
The Environment and Forestry Ministry will release two Sumatran tigers into their habitat in Riau Province after it cooperated with the Dharmasraya Sumatra Tigers Rehabilitation Center-ARSARI Djojohadikusumo Foundation (PR-HSD-ARSARI Foundation) to conduct rescue activities.
The Sumatran tigers comprise a female tiger called Bonita and a male tiger named Atan Bintang, the ministry noted in a press statement released on Monday.
Bonita was rescued from a plantation at Tanjung Simpang Village in Indragiri Hilir District on January 3, 2018, while Atan Bintan was rescued from a residential area in Burung Island also in the district on November 18, 2018.
“The conservation of (endangered) animals would be successful if all sides were to work together. The result of PVA (Population Viability Analysis) shows the population of Sumatran tigers in their natural habitat reaches only 603 found in 23 habitat enclaves,” Director General of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Conservation of the Environment and Forestry Ministry Wiratno stated.
The global environmental conservation organization WWF-Indonesia has used an art approach to protect Sumatran tigers, in its collaboration with young rapper Tuan Tigabelas from Sumatra to hold a concert at Mount Pancar in Bogor District, West Java, in the commemoration of Global Tiger Day on July 29.
WWF Indonesia in its statement here on Sunday said it raised the tagline of “Sumatran tigers as the pride of Indonesia” and choose an art and cultural approach to awaken in public the pride toward the iconic species, based on fact that tigers often exist in works of art such as stories, songs, films and paintings.
WWF-Indonesia Partnership Director Ade Swargo Mulyo said the organization has collaborated with Tuan Tigabelas who had long been inspired by tigers in his works, to hold “Concert-vation: Concert and Conservation”.
Even as we’re days away from celebrating International Tiger Day, news of an adult tigress being brutally beaten up in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh is doing the rounds. Tigers around the world succumb to such man-animal conflicts, resulting in the drastic dwindling of their numbers. Concentrated efforts need to be put in for their conservation, and creating awareness about the threat faced by tigers is a good place to start. The exhibition ‘Save the Tiger’, curated by gallerist Kalpana Shah and artist Fawad Tamkanat, takes a leap in this direction.
But the exhibition doesn’t overwhelm you with written details about the tiger. Instead, it gently nudges you in the direction of discovery by presenting artworks that draw out the beauty, charisma and power of this regal beast. And that’s why, on stepping into the gallery, one feels like one has stepped onto a patch of wilderness overrun by the big cat.
Wall after wall is covered with photographs and paintings that capture the tiger mid-move and mid-mood. In the photographs of Raj Salgaokar, Isheta Salgaokar, Rajesh Khanna and Urvi Piramal, we see the tiger in its natural habitat, engaged in mundane pursuit like bathing, dozing in a verdant patch, playing with siblings or even sitting stalk still, gazing into the camera. A similar candidness is captured in the paintings of Sushma Jain.
With the Malayan Tiger population in the wild already at an all-time low, news of the death of a tiger caught in Kampung Besul Lama, Dungun, Terengganu, recently, has set alarm bells ringing.
Siblings Delwin Cheah Wien Loong, 16, and Delwina Cheah Kah Yan, 14, despite their tender age, have taken a step towards raising awareness about the need to protect Malayan Tigers by starting a campaign on the issue.
The campaign, named HUKU, is derived from two Chinese words — Lao (Hu) and Tong (Ku), which means “the tigers are suffering”.
Their friend, Max Yeoh Pang Kuan, 26, is also helping in the campaign.
