EIA is calling on financial institutions with a footprint in East Asia to step up efforts to identify and act on transactions linked to the illegal wildlife trade
Five live tigers and a severed tiger head have been seized from a ‘zoo’ in Thailand long suspected of involvement in illegal wildlife trade
Illegal killing for their body parts continues to be a serious threat to the survival of wild tigers and efforts to eliminate this trade continue, in many cases, to be insufficient
In 2010, 29 July was designated Global Tiger Day by the heads of State of all 13 tiger range countries when they signed the St Petersburg Declaration in Russia
Criminal wildlife traders continue to cash in on the coronavirus crisis – including touting tiger bone “glue” to maintain health during the pandemic
There is no escaping the fact that countries from which wild tigers have been wiped out or virtually wiped out in recent years – Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China – are countries where the tiger has been valued solely for the sum of its body parts.