NEW $15,000 MATCHING FUNDS AVAILABLE

Six people have been killed by tigers in the Panpatha Range of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in recent months. 

One woman died sleeping outside her own home. Others were walking familiar forest paths at dawn or dusk — paths they'd walked their whole lives — when a tiger surprised them in the dark.

These aren't random tragedies. They happen because neither the person nor the tiger can see the other coming. Give both of them a few seconds of warning, and almost every one of these encounters ends without harm.

The Corbett Foundation, led by Kedar Gore, has a fix that already works: solar street lights. A lit path lets someone spot a tiger from a distance and quietly back away. A lit cattle shed keeps tigers from approaching livestock, which means fewer retaliatory calls to trap or kill the cat.

110 lights. $425 each. $46,750 total. That's it — that's the whole ask.

    •    $425 sponsors one light for one village path
    •    $85 covers a fifth of a light
    •    $2,125 funds five lights and protects an entire family's route home

When people feel safe living alongside tigers, tigers survive. When they don't, the pressure to remove "problem" tigers becomes impossible to resist. This is the same fight for the same 3,000 wild tigers left on Earth — just fought at the edge of the forest instead of inside it.
 

Help us earn the match. Sponsor a light now!