Celebrating #SEAMember Richmond Football Club’s conservation achievements

With less than 4,000 tigers left in the wild, the fight to save this majestic species is critical and requires immediate action.

As an active #SEAMember, Richmond Football Club has found a way to harness its supporters’ passion to help save endangered tigers in landscapes thousands of kilometres away.

Their partnership with WWF-Australia brought the strengths of each organisation to provide a compelling front for tiger conservation.

While the Club has a large and loyal community to seek support from, WWF has the resources, research, connections, and knowledge required to make the change.

This collaboration has led to two overseas trips to tiger landscapes, Sumatra and India, where a team from the Club, including player ambassadors, learnt about tiger management strategies, threats, and met the local people who are facing this challenge every day.

In a significant achievement, a group of the Club’s Coterie members have come together to fund a Tiger Patrol Unit in Belum State Park in Malaysia. In a location which has faced severe poaching casualties over the past ten years, this patrol unit is removing snares, monitoring tiger numbers, and disrupting poachers’ activity.