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Wildlife activists: Pressure China
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| The Asian Age , Saturday, August 04, 2007 |
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| New Delhi, Aug. 3: Calling pro-tiger farming experts "hired assassins", wildlife conservationists have demanded international pressure on China, which they say is putting lives of tigers around the globe under threat by not banning tiger farming. These conservationists fear that tiger poaching in India in the past couple of years has resulted in a decline of 90 per cent of tigers, which were there during the last tiger census count. They fear that India is left with not more than 1,500 tigers, which during the last count were around 3,700. Asking tiger range states to strengthen their conservation efforts, these conservationists have raised concern that any move which favours breeding of tigers will have a direct consequence on the tigers in the wild. "China has repeatedly said that it wants to open tiger trade and promote tiger farming," said wildlife activist Belinda Wright who said that tiger farming will only put tiger conservation under threat as it is more easier to kill a tiger than to breed it.
Even official figures have shown that more than 90 per cent of tiger parts from India are smuggled to China, which has the biggest market of tiger parts which are mostly used in its traditional medicines.
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The Asian Age, Saturday, 05 August 2007 |
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