A few of the participants and delegates to the Tiger Workshop are starting to show up. Huge tiger billboards and posters greet arrivals at the Kathmandu International Airport and the main thoroughfares in the city. Organizing teams at the Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation are hard at work with logistical preparations.

The workshop is taking place at the sprawling Soaltee Crowne Plaza Hotel on the western side of the city of Kathmandu. The Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhar Kumar Nepal, and the Minister for Environment of Thailand will open the workshop next Tuesday (October 27) during the Inaugural Session. Then the scientists and country delegations will get to work.