Jack Baucher’s conservation roots began when he moved to Nepal in 2009 to study the language and work in a Himalayan village. Jack soon learned about the issues in the village with human wildlife conflict and how it was diminishing the resident leopard population, locals were snaring the leopards in retaliation of livestock killings and trading their skins to Tibet. After the 8-month stint in the Himalayan foothills, he had witnessed the adverse impact of the continuing spread of humanity on indigenous wildlife throughout Nepal – Jack was conservation obsessed!

Jack continued his conservational focus and lived in Asia for 5 years. Learning the relevant field skills to become an accomplished conservationist – tracking tigers, guiding botanists, working with mahouts and domesticated elephants, fine tuning the art of camera trapping snow leopards, studying scats with analysis to determine prey species, maintaining habitat and grasslands for sufficient herbivore densities, interacting and living with communities, and working with government officials to enable effective national park management.

Since his introduction in 2009 and 5 years of field experience, Tears for Tigers – Travel & Consultancy, introduces donors and clients to the best conservation practices across the globe. Offering clients an opportunity to engage in conservation and become very hands on and pragmatic about the realities to saving endangered wildlife from extinction. Jack’s philosophy of ‘Seeing is Believing’ is something he deems critical to the survival of many species! In February 2017, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh invited Jack to Buckingham Palace for his efforts in conservation in India following an initial meeting with the Royal Foundation.