Ten Lessons From a Tiger: John Vaillant at TEDxYYC

Humans and tigers have shared a common landscape across Asia for hundreds of millennia, shaping our culture and beliefs in profound ways. Over the past century, even as the tiger's symbolic power has spread worldwide through sports teams, corporate logos and the conservation movement, the wild tiger population has plummeted to barely 3,000 individuals and 95% of their habitat has been lost to human encroachment. John Vaillant examined the history of human-tiger relations for his latest book and discovered some surprising similarities between our species. At this pivotal moment in our shared history, as humans face the true costs of our species' unprecedented impact on the planet, Vaillant shares crucial lessons the tiger can teach us about long term success and mutual survival.

John Vaillant is a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among others. His first book, The Golden Spruce (Knopf, 2005), was a bestseller and won several awards, including the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction (Canada). His most recent book, The Tiger (Knopf, 2010), is also an award-winning bestseller. His first novel, The Jaguar's Children, will be published by Knopf in spring, 2014. Of particular interest to Vaillant are stories that explore collisions between human ambition and the natural world.

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