NGOs Call for Urgent Action to End Tiger ‘Farming’ and Trade

China, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam continue to keep and breed tigers for trade in their parts and products.

Many facilities that keep tigers are engaged in legal and illegal domestic and international trade in parts and derivatives of tigers that have been bred in captivity, and in some cases in laundering illegally acquired tigers in to the trade. There are an estimated 7000 tigers in captivity in South East Asia and China, and no signs that so-called tiger “farms” are being phased out.

The government of China has authorized a domestic trade in the skins of captive bred tigers for use as luxury home décor and for taxidermy. This stimulates demand for the world’s remaining 3,200 wild tigers instead of reducing it.

Tiger “farming” has been allowed to drag on for too long. It is time for more decisive action towards achieving Zero Demand, and to hold accountable those countries that are implicated in tiger “farming” and trade in captive tiger parts and products.


Source: Annamiticus
Tue 19 Jan 2016 at 08:35