Despite signing up to global initiatives seeking to protect wild tigers, doubling their number by 2022, departments in China have set about stimulating domestic markets for tiger skins and body parts. As few as 3,500 tigers survive in the wild, yet more than 5,000 captive-bred tigers exist in Chinese ‘farms’ and ‘zoos’
A briefing prepared for the 2nd Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation, in Bhutan, from 21-24 October 2012. We outline how snow leopards remain seriously endangered across their range, threatened by habitat loss, conflict killing, prey loss and poaching for trade
Wildlife crime was officially recognised as a form of serious transnational organised crime by the UN General Assembly in 2000. The need for a sophisticated and coordinated response from enforcement agencies is required to combat it
Hundreds of whale products are being offered for sale on the Japanese website of internet search engine company Yahoo!. Killing for Commerce details how Yahoo! Japan facilitates the sale of whale meat in Japan and how US parent company Yahoo! profits from the sales of products made from endangered whales
A report documenting how for the past 20 years Denmark has actively supported countries which practice commercial whaling. The country’s stance raises serious questions as to how the Danish presidency of the EU can be maintained, given that its whaling policy doesn’t mesh with EU law