In 2005, with support from the Rhinoceros &Tiger Conservation Fund, USA and the Save the Tiger Fund, Phoenix published a third edition of the booklet “Guidelines for human behavior and livestock management in tiger habitat”. The booklet contains important information on what a person should do during various instances of encounter with tiger: when it is a tigress with cubs, when tiger is hungry or wounded, when it is near its prey, or caught in a trap, etc. Besides, the brochure describes tiger behavior during attack, human defense techniques, livestock management recommendations and scaring away methods. The aim of the publication is to ensure safety of people in taiga and minimize the possibility of conflict situations with tiger, so that this magnificent endangered predator can “peacefully co-exist” with people. The booklet has been gaining an increasing interest from local communities and nature reserves, among which it is disseminated.
