Despite Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s promise to the world that his country would “vigorously combat poaching, trade and smuggling of tiger products”, China appears to have quietly reopened the trade in tiger and leopard skins via the implementation of its 2007 Skin Registration Scheme
EIA has written a personal letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to warn him that significant failings within a key state department in China are making a mockery of his pledge at Global Tiger Forum in St Petersburg, Russia, to “vigorously combat poaching, trade and smuggling of tiger products”
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