Tigers threatened by reckless profiteering in lion bones

The world’s last remaining tigers are living under severe threat of extinction, having lost 93 per cent of their historical range and suffered a population crash of 95 per cent during the past century.

The major threat to their continued existence on Earth is poaching to meet the high demand in Asia for their parts and derivatives.

This demand is exacerbated by the legal trade in lion bone, so it was with dismay that EIA witnessed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) last year decide to allow South Africa to export up to 800 lion skeletons a year – as long as the lions were sourced from captive breeding facilities in South Africa.

Ahead of next week’s 29th meeting of the CITES Animals Committee, in Geneva, Switzerland, EIA has produced the detailed briefing 'The Lion’s Share: South Africa’s trade exacerbates demand for tiger parts and derivatives' outlining the threat.

Read this News Update in full at eia-international.org/tigers-threatened-by-reckless-profiteering-in-lion-bones

Read & download the report at eia-international.org/report/the-lions-share

#Africa #SouthAfrica #lions #tigers CITES

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Mexico: UN spotlights the critical condition of the last few vaquita porpoises

The UN Environment Program (UNEP) has extended its #WildForLife campaign to include the rarest and most endangered sea mammal, the vaquita, an endemic species of the Gulf of California, in Mexico.

The campaign seeks to draw attention to the serious danger of extinction in this animal, of which only about 30 individuals remain in their natural habitat.

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UNEP has called for immediate action to save the vaquita, threatened mainly by the illegal fishing of totoaba, a fish itself endangered but which is poached and traded because of the high demand, especially in China, for its dried swim bladder, or maw.

Last month, the Mexican Government banned the use of gillnets in the vaquita habitat along with closing night fishing and monitoring the exit and entry of authorised vessels in that protected area.

The vaquita is the 14th species to be added to the UNEP #WildForLife campaign.

Source: www.informaria.com/vaquita-marina-peligro-extincion-pesca-ilegal-totoaba/

#vaquita #porpoise #totoaba #fish #fishing #Mexico #China #illegalwildlifetrade United Nations UN Environment

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