How Belmond’s luxury ‘Tiger Express’ train journey could save big cats from extinction
Travel firm and Save Wild Tigers charity hope six-day Thailand-to-Singapore trip on Eastern & Oriental Express will raise awareness about endangered big cats
A luxurious six-day, five-night train trip from Bangkok to Singapore starting on September 7 – passing through the tiger’s traditional habitat – aims to help to save the endangered big cats, which “could be extinct in the wild within a decade”.
Hotel and leisure company Belmond and its Eastern & Oriental Express train has teamed up with the global tiger conservation charity initiative, Save Wild Tigers, to launch “Tiger Express” to raise awareness about the plight of the world’s last remaining wild tigers.
Only 3,800 tigers remain in the wild worldwide, with as few as 400 in Thailand and Malaysia, Belmond says.
Most tigers can be found spread across the Indian subcontinent, Asia and Russia.
However, if numbers continue to decline at their current rate, wild tigers will be extinct within the decade.
“With potentially as few as 10 years left to save this iconic species from extinction, the clock really is ticking,” Simon Clinton, founder of Save Wild Tigers, says.
With potentially as few as 10 years left to save this iconic species from extinction, the clock really is ticking
“We are really proud and grateful to be working with the Eastern & Oriental Express once again in providing passengers with a chance to experience a trip of a lifetime, for what surely must be the cause of a lifetime.”
The two parties first teamed up to launch the “Tiger Express” in 2014.
