• The Conversation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS) is an accreditation scheme that encourages tiger conservation areas to meet a set of standards and criteria, created by an international group of experts and protected area managers that assures effective and long term tiger conservation.
• CA|TS is a partnership between governments, NGOs and tiger conservation areas.
• It was developed in response to the need for stringent conservation procedures that is essential to delivering on the goal of doubling the number of wild tigers by 2022 agreed to in declaration adopted at the St Petersburg Tiger Summit in 2010.
• CA|TS provides an opportunity for individual tiger conservation areas or networks of areas todemonstrate their commitment to, and success in, protecting tigers.
• CA|TS mission is to secure safe havens for wild tigers.
• CA|TS is based on a set of seven pillars with 17 minimum standards and associated criteria for effective management.