The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) saves wildlife and wild lands in 50 nations around the world through careful science, international conservation, education and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together, these activities inform personal attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in sustainable interaction on both a local and a global scale.

In a move to integrate a network of five New York wildlife parks and hundreds of conservation programs in the field, WCS created Tiger Mountain, a Bronx Zoo-based wildlife exhibit dedicated to demonstrating firsthand the magnificence of Siberian tigers and to presenting the Society’s tiger conservation work throughout Asia.

A grant from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation has allowed WCS to create a sophisticated, all-weather video system at Tiger Mountain that plays continuous film loops using high-definition video projectors and large-screen plasma displays. Visitors to the exhibit watch stunning footage of both captive and wild tigers and have the opportunity to interact with still and moving images through a variety of outdoor touch screens. Broadcast images are designed to evoke an appreciation for wild tigers in Asia and to motivate visitors to take conservation action.

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