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CITES decides against tiger farming
13 June Scientific American: UN
meeting rebukes China over tiger trade
14 June BBC: Call to tame
China’s tiger farms
But
15 July The Hindu: Can legal trade save the
tiger?
8 July Xinhua: Official: don’t be squeamish about tiger bones
22 June New Kerala: Tiger:
India seeks clarification from CITES over China’s intent
The CITES Decision: “…tigers should not be bred for trade in their
parts and derivatives” Full text Cats at
CITES homepage
A
new TRAFFIC report by CAT Director Kristin Nowell and TRAFFIC East Asia’s
Xu Ling advises China to keep its tiger trade ban: Taming
the Tiger Trade: China’s Markets
for Wild and Captive Tiger Products Since its 1993 Domestic Trade Ban
This report is also available in
Chinese Index to Chinese media coverage of the
report’s launch in June 2007
Other resources:
Nowell, K. and Xu, Ling. 2007. Lifting
China’s tiger trade ban would be a catastrophe for conservation. Cat News
46: 28-29.
Guo, J. 2007. Year of the tiger. Nature
449 (6 September): 16-18.
Morell, V. 2007. Can the wild
tiger survive? Science 314 (7 September):
1312-1314.
Vinod, T. 2007. Stop
tigers from going extinct. LA Times opinion piece by World Bank
economist, 27 September.
Breitenmoser, U. and Nowell, K.
2007. International Tiger Symposium
in Kathmandu, 16-18 April 2007. Cat News 46: 44
ITN news investigation finds DNA
evidence that tiger meat is being illegally sold at the Xiongsen tiger farm,
and the owner attacks the film crew at the International Tiger Symposium in
Nepal: ITN news video (April 21,
2007)
South China Morning Post exposé of illegal trade at the Xiongsen tiger
farm: Bad Medicine (
China Government
report to CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species
Times of India news: India
opposes Chinese plan to breed tigers for body parts (
Nowell, K. 2000. Far From A Cure:
The Tiger Trade Revisited. TRAFFIC
International report.
And the arguments in favor of
legalization: Tiger conservation:
It’s time to think outside the box.
IWMC report.
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