I’m very pleased to share with you that I have received a National Geographic Young Explorer grant to do a story about the plight of the last remaining Tigers of Nepal. By the latest estimate, only 198 Bengal tigers survive in a number of fragmented natural parks in the lower regions of the Himalayas. If we do not take action today, the Nepalese population will likely be extinct within ten to twenty years.

The photo above shows one of the young Sumatran tigers currently living in Burgers’ Zoo. Of course, a photo of a Bengal tiger would have been more fitting (being the subspecies that lives in Nepal), but I happened to be at the zoo this week to attend the Future for Nature Awards.

Read National Geographic Explorer: Photographing the Last Tigers of Nepal at Joris van Alphen Photography.