4 College Football Teams Take on ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Protect Wild Tigers

It’s a good year to be a Clemson Tigers football fan, but a bleak time to be an actual tiger in the wild. A loss of habitat and population has pushed tigers to the brink of extinction.

Clemson, and three other universities with tiger mascots—including Auburn, Louisiana State University and the University of Missouri—are teaming up to save the world’s remaining tigers.

Check out the video above from Newsy to see how the U.S. Tiger University Consortium is taking on “a moral responsibility” to protect and double the tiger population by 2022.

After all, having an extinct species mascot would be nothing to cheer.