Sentences with phrase «in tiger parts»

China alone is believed to be home to 5,000 domestic tigers, and farms thrive despite the government banning the trade in tiger parts in 1993.

Owners claim rearing the cats in captivity will help reduce the illegal trade in tiger parts which are used in traditional medicine, but environmentalists say it only stimulates further smuggling.

JAKARTA — Conservation authorities in Indonesia are investigating suspicions that the illegal trade in tiger parts drove the killing of one of the rare big cats earlier this month.

Tiger numbers in recent decades have plummeted because of human encroachment - with the loss of more than nine - tenths of their habitat - and poaching to supply a vibrant trade in tiger parts.

On a chartered boat and sometimes patrol boats, Rabinowitz winds deeper and deeper into the struggles of tigers, which are hemmed in ever more in India and Bangladesh by expanding populations and deforestation and imperiled by the rising Asian trade in tiger parts.

All are the unrelenting target of poachers controlled by gangs that supply the trade in tiger parts for traditional «medicine» in China and South - East Asia.

Undercover operations by TRAFFIC revealed substantial domestic trading in tiger parts in Indonesia.

Not exact matches

Being part of the Wolf Pack is better than being a tiger in a pride.

How to make stud earrings step1: make out the skeleton of snowflake part Cut out one 80 cm long tiger tail wire, and then thread the following beads in orders to the wire center position: 4 mm...

The wood tiger moth is the first species known in which fluids from various parts of the moth's body each target a different type of predator.

«It will be interesting to see the influence of large predators on smaller predators in other parts of the world, especially the role of the big cats such as jaguars, leopards, lions and tigers,» said co-author William Ripple of Oregon State University.

There's a huge problem with the trade of tiger parts for use [pdf] in traditional Chinese medicines, so tigers have dwindled in countries like Cambodia and Laos and Thailand.

Said Nadezhda Sulikhan, a scientific staff member of Land of the Leopard National Park and Ph.D. candidate at the Federal Scientific Center of East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity (part of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences): «The leopard virus was genetically similar to infections we've diagnosed in wild Amur tigers.

Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, defends the use of pugmarks as «in tune with the local conditions» and says that the technique will be refined as part of a $ 1.1 million project now under way to map all tiger habitats.

China, for its part, has banned any trade in tiger products since 1993, nearly eliminating tiger parts from medicine shops, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare — something I witnessed for myself in China.

And in other parts of the world, the victim is a goat rather than a girl, or the villain is a tiger rather than a wolf.

A quarter of the 484 shops and dealers surveyed in 24 towns across Sumatra had tiger parts for sale, particularly canine teeth and claws.

Conservationists say they can use these relatives to help reestablish the Caspian tiger in Central Asia, parts of which are no longer inhabited by people and have plenty of suitable prey.

This means that, in addition to being inbred, almost all of the axolotls in labs and aquariums today are actually part tiger salamander.

There, habitats for orangutans, elephants and tigers are being destroyed and land - clearing fires, which cloak parts of the region in haze, have become a routine hazard.

Conservationists must try to reduce the demand for tiger parts in China as part of a campaign to save the big cats, wildlife experts warned at an anti-poaching conference

Then, one fateful Halloween morning, the wave - riding teen was taking part in a national surf competition when a 14 - foot - long tiger shark emerged from the depths and changed her life in the blink of an eye.

Leonardo is a yellow tiger, who's appearance and name is heavily based on a leopard, an animal that is in the Panthera genus, which the tiger is also a part of.

There are trippy detours throughout, most memorably when Richard pictures himself in a cheesy videogame (battling a tiger, natch), but for the most part, The Beach treads structural ground well worn by Lord of the Flies and The Mosquito Coast and Apocalypse Now.

I liked each and every bit of it.Your take on the movie is also quite good.I do nt agree with your comments on Tyson.Tyson and his tiger add special humor to the movie.Tiger in the bathroom is one of the craziest part of the movie.Phil, Stu, Alan are definitely there to stay in the heart of the viewers for long.

These baby Bengal / Sumatran cross tigers were part of the case and I had a chance to go visit them at their foster home in Brewster, MA.

Catnip is ten times more effective than DEET at repelling mosquitoes Some insects also contain Nepetalactone which may protect them from other insects Large cats such as tigers can also enjoy a little catnip There are 250 species in the mint family Labiatae, only one causes this response in cats Cats can smell very small amounts of catnip in the air, only 1 part per billion

Exposed by Australian charity & National Geographic BANGKOK, Thailand ---- More than 15 years of allegations that the renowned Tiger Temple is engaged in breeding and trafficking tigers for body parts gained weight with the January 21, 2016 release of a detailed investigative report and collection of documents from the Australian wildlife charity Cee4Life, founded by -LSB-...]

The park is a part of Project Tiger conservation and boasts of a number of tigers in their natural habitat.

You can also take a luxury train journey as part of your tour, see tigers at the Ranthambore game sanctuary, see the Taj Mahal, and chill on a beach in Goa.

The result (which cost Saatchi # 50,000) was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a tiger shark (which cost # 6,000) pickled in formaldehyde in a glass case, which was exhibited in 1992 as part of the first Young British Arts (YBA) Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery of contemporary art in London.

The second part of Zhilyaev's «archive,» which is presented at the e-flux gallery, consists of press images of President Vladimir Putin, in which his antics (namely, his media appearances showing him kissing a tiger, flying with cranes, fishing, or painting) are displayed as the work of a conceptual artist.

And yet in the mix of paint, chrome and grime that coats these scenes, a beautiful order prevails, in the symmetry of used tires hung on hooks, the fantasy of a pair of ferocious tigers painted on a hood and the way one part of a motor fits into another.

In another part of the room, intricate warship constructions by the consistently inspiring Brooklyn - based artist Katherine Bradford juxtapose Dial's painted fish and tiger.

Bjarne Melgaard employed baby tigers in a 2012 Ramiken Crucible show, stirring controversy; Darren Bader positioned shelter cats as sculptures in his PS1 solo exhibition of the same year; there was Cai Guo - Qiang's decision to mound iPads on live tortoises as part of a 2014 show at the Aspen Art Museum.

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Two tigers have been killed in the last 12 months at the Yichang Zoo in Hubei for their parts.

As I wrote not long ago, Thailand should be credited for its multi-pronged crackdown on the trade in tigers and tiger parts.

This is no small part because some Twitter user named @LeoDicaprio led a nomination blitz Tuesday night in recognition of my recent focus on the relatively low cost of conserving wild tigers (and a possible role by a successful company that names its operating systems for tigers and other big cats).

But in 1993, the Chinese government imposed a ban on trade in tigers and their parts, making it much more difficult for those who want a mouthful or closet full of this endangered species.

But since 1993 trade in rhino horn, (as well as tiger parts) was banned by the Chinese government with the aim of stopping the use of endangered wildlife derivatives in TCM: but advocates cling to historical evidence, knowing their ancestors used it, their parents, grandparents: the reason why it continues to be used today by many Chinese families.

12:04 p.m. Updated A study just published in the journal PLos Biology, «Bringing the Tiger Back from the Brink — The Six Percent Solution,» lays out a smart strategy for stanching the decline of tigers in the wild driven by relentless poaching for skins and the Asian trade in extracts and body parts.

I agree that Thailand should be credited for its multi-pronged crackdown on the trade in tigers and tiger parts.

Historically, China was the world's largest market for tiger parts: traditional Chinese medicine uses tiger products, and the cats» skins are used for status symbol clothing, particularly in Tibet.

Earlier this month, Traffic, a network monitoring poaching and commerce in rare wildlife, released «Reduced to Skin and Bones,» a report finding skins, bone and other body parts from more than 1,000 tigers confiscated in 11 countries in the last decade.

«The tiger survives today thanks in large part to China's prompt, strict and committed action.»

John Bryant, CEO of snack food giant Kellogg's, found himself in hot water last week on a quarterly earnings call when one investor took the company to task for its part in destroying vital Indonesian peatlands that store vast amounts of climate - polluting carbon, and rainforests home to the last 400 remaining wild Sumatran tigers in the world.

A shocking decline in the Russian Federation's wild tiger population highlights the importance of eliminating trade in and demand for tiger parts, the International Tiger Coalition (ITC) said today.

Poaching is still the greatest threat to wild tigers today, with parts of their body still in high demand throughout Asia.

In Malaysia, Panthera is working with the Johor State Government as part of of a collaborative project with the Wildlife Conservation Society that aims to increase tiger numbers by 50 percent over a 10 - year period at key sites across the animal's range.