Celebrities from the worlds of drama, comedy, conservation, television, sport, fashion and journalism will be burning bright at the year’s most exotic fundraising event for wild tiger conservation, an exclusive Gala Night at London’s prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel
As few as 3,200 tigers survive in the wild today. That’s why wild tigers need all the friends they can get. On March 3, 2011 celebrities, conservation leaders and campaigners will attend an exclusive Gala Night in London to raise funds for this critically endangered species
China has responded to efforts to ban credits from industrial gas projects in the European carbon market by threatening to release huge amounts of potent industrial chemicals unless developed nations pay what amounts to a climate ransom with continued payments far in excess of the actual cost of destroying HFC-23
Amid growing apprehension, conservationists at the International Tiger Forum are still awaiting a sign that governments are willing to turn words into action to save the world’s 3,200 remaining wild tigers from possible extinction and fear the meeting may close without essential commitments being made by Asia’s leaders
The International Tiger Coalition welcomes Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s convening of world leaders at the International Tiger Conservation Forum and, in response to this historic and unprecedented event, offers support to tiger range states and other participants to help double wild tiger numbers by 2022
Participants in the International Tiger Forum taking place in St Petersburg, Russia are cautioned that they must act decisively now or face a future in which the wild tiger is extinct – as few as 3,200 wild tigers remain and the time for toothless if well-intentioned declarations is long gone