Sentences with phrase «tiger parts»

The names and addresses of the outlets selling tiger parts at the time were handed over to Indonesian authorities.

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

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

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.

It includes information on tiger parts used in Chinese medicine, a description of tiger poaching in India, a book about Siberian tigers, and suggestions for saving tigers throughout the world.

Traditional Chinese medicine views tiger parts as providing good luck and protective powers, but cubs are also often traded for their fur or as pets for the elite.

TRAFFIC examined Sumatra's trade in tiger parts from April to November 2002, using undercover investigations, literature reviews and interviews with hunters, retailers and zoo staff.

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.

The Chinese representative at the talks, Jia Zhibang, the minister of forests, offered a mixed message, noting that China's ban on trade in tiger parts since 1993 resulted in «economic sacrifices» while pledging China would increase investments in tiger conservation and clamp down on illegal trafficking in tiger products.

As with tiger parts, exotic pets, elephant ivory, ebony and other rare, but coveted biological goods, stemming demand is as vital as clamping down on illicit trade.

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.

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.

The government says the farms have been developed to attract tourists but critics say they are used to harvest tiger parts.

With hindsight, it also became clear that protection and management of many reserves remained inadequate (the extirpation of tigers in the Indian tiger reserves of Sariska, reported in 2004, and Panna, reported in 2010, is illustrative) and this, coupled with an increased demand for tiger parts [12], meant that poaching of tigers and prey decimated populations across Asia, both inside and outside reserves.

They fan the potential use of tiger parts.

The most immediate threat to the survival of Amur tigers is poaching to supply demand for tiger parts on the black market.

The Far East is responsible for huge losses of tigers (elephants, bears, sharks and rhinos, too) and «breeding programs» have to be curtailed when they are obviously simply selling 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.

Interpol's researchers found 21 ads on the darknet for products made of rhino horns, ivory, and tiger parts, during a period ranging from December of 2016 to April of this year.

«The operations involve everything from sea turtles, to ivory, to tiger parts and rhino horns,» Brown said.

Last month, he led a three - member UN team that visited India and Japan to assess ways of stemming the illegal trade in tiger parts, which are highly valued by makers of traditional Asian medicines.

While we increasingly hear about the illegal trade of elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger parts, few people will have heard about the illegal trade in hundreds of plant species for horticulture and medicine.

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

In this video, WWF explains how consumer demand for tiger parts and furs have led to a decrease in wild tiger populations from around 100,000 to just an estimated 3,200 today.

The conservation society video notes that other tigers have been monitored in the same area recently, and the demand for tiger parts and products in China remains high.

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.

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

«In the early 1990s, we feared that Chinese demand for tiger parts would drive the tiger to extinction by the new millennium,» says Steven Broad, Executive Director of TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring program of WWF and IUCN - the World Conservation Union.

Allowing trade in tiger parts to resume, even if they are from captive - bred tigers, would inevitably lead to an increase in demand for such products.

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.

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.

A spokesman for the UN declined to comment on the investigators» findings but said: «The ban on trade in tiger parts was introduced to help save a highly endangered animal.

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.

The declaration also supports maintaining a permanent ban on the trade of tiger parts and reducing poaching through beefed - up law enforcement.

Despite lobbying from influential businessmen for the ban to be lifted, China last month announced it would take stronger law enforcement action on the trade in tiger parts and products.

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.

They say allowing trade in tiger parts would fuel poaching because it is cheaper to kill a wild animal than to raise a tiger on a farm.

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.

Pointing to the continued efforts of the Chinese government to curb the sale and trade of tiger parts, David Smith, a tiger expert at the University of Minnesota, commented:

Many cat species are hunted by poachers, who get high prices on the black market for tiger parts and snow leopard pelts.

The announcement was given during the first Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation as a call to several attending countries that allow commercial captive breeding of tigers.Found primarily in China, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, tiger farms, World Bank contends, fuel the international demand for tiger parts.

In 2010, TRAFFIC worked alongside the World Federation of Chinese Medicine, who called for their members to cease using tiger parts in their products, signalling clearly that there is no place for the illegal wildlife trade within Chinese and traditional medicines.