Anthony is a Vancouver, Canada based conservationist who has spent the last five years on a crusade to raise awareness about the threats faced not only by tigers, but also bears, elephants, Rhinos and sea turtles. He was born in Mainland China, and raised in Hong Kong before emigrating to Canada. Trained as a physicist, Anthony developed a strong bond with nature and wilderness while exploring for minerals and conducting industrial environmental studies in Western Canada. Beginning in 1995, Anthony conducted a relentless campaign under the banner of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, one of the country's leading environmental organizations.
Anthony has taken his tiger conservation message to hundreds of thousands of children in British Columbia and India. He has generated a great deal of media attention, partly due to his unusually vocal stance for someone of North American-Chinese heritage and, in part, due to the occasionally violent confrontations he has had with some members of his own ethnic community.
He conceived and led the 'Walk for the Tiger', in which thousands of children raise funds for Anthony's campaign, while walking on behalf of a myriad of sponsors around Vancouver's world-renowned Stanley Park. But, perhaps, the accomplishment for which Anthony is best known for is his campaign to change Canada's laws banning the sale of products containing tiger bone. After a great deal of undercover work during 1995 and 1996, Anthony assembled a body of evidence that help motivate Canadian lawmakers to ban the sale of all products derived from tigers. Today, the sale of all products containing tiger derivatives is punishable with large fines and substantial jail terms.
Anthony Marr parted company with the Western Canada Wilderness Committee in late 1999 and has since started an environmental-spiritual organization called HOPE GEO. He now devotes himself to lobbying many of the World's nations to redirect a portion of their defense budgets to environmental conservation and preaches a "New Age" philosophy he calls Omniscient Cosmology.