Tag: tigers

尽管签署了旨在保护野生老虎并令它们在2022年达到双倍数量的全球倡议，中国政府部门已暗地里着手刺激国内老虎皮和身体部分的市场。在野外仅存的老虎只有3500只，然而有多于5000只老虎在中国的‘老虎繁育场’和‘动物园’被圈养繁殖。

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

A briefing revealing that a large number of auctions of tiger bone wine, supposedly illegal in China, have taken place, going as far back as 2009. While it is not possible to confirm that all tiger bone wine advertised for auction was successfully sold, they clearly show there is widespread demand for the product

A briefing on the two parallel markets for Asian Big Cat products, one from captive-bred animals and one from wild animals