Tiger experts call for urgent action to save species
More than 250 experts, scientists and government delegates from 13 tiger range countries this week called for immediate action to save tigers before the species disappears from the wild, citing the urgent need for increased protection against tiger poaching and trafficking in tiger parts.
Tiger rescue highlights poaching threat in Malaysia
A five-year-old male Tiger was freed from a poacher’s snare on Sunday after it was found by WWF’s Wildlife Protection Unit (WPU) just off a highway that cuts through the Belum-Temengor forest complex in the northern state of Perak.
Tiger parts found in Vietnam taxi
Hanoi’s Environmental Police on Thursday found a frozen tiger and more than 11 kgs of tiger bones smuggled by taxi from the country’s interior to Hanoi – the third seizure of tiger parts in the city this year.
World Bank debunks tiger farming benefits
Experimenting with tiger farming is too risky and could drive wild tigers further toward extinction, the World Bank told a key international wildlife trade meeting today.
Pulp giant APP set to assault Sumatra orangutan sanctuary
A massive logging operation planned by Asian Pulp & Paper and the Sinar Mas Group (APP/SMG) and associated companies is to include large portions of the only areas that Sumatran orangutans have ever successfully been re-introduced into the wild, conservation groups active in Jambi province have learned.
Amur tigers threatened by economic crisis
Loggers in Russia’s Far East increasingly are cutting down Korean cedar pine, raising concerns that the endangered Amur tiger could lose critical habitat and its prey could lose a major food source.
APP’s forest clearing linked to 12 years of human and tiger deaths in Sumatra
Most violent incidents between people and tigers in Sumatra’s Riau Province in the past 12 years have occurred near forests being cleared by paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and associated companies, according to a new analysis of human-tiger conflict data.
Illegal clearing behind human and tiger deaths in Sumatra
In the wake of the deaths of six people from tiger attacks in Sumatra’s Jambi Province in less than a month, conservationists are calling for an urgent crackdown on the clearing of natural forest in the province as a matter of public safety.
Outrage as protected forests go under the hammer in Russia
Protected forest in Russia including a “maternity hospital” for the Amur tiger and unique Korean pine stands have been sold for logging in controversial circumstances and in the face of protests by WWF-Russia and the local population.
Tiger part trader becomes TRAFFIC contributor
A Canadian company specializing in Chinese traditional medicines is to pay the bulk of a CAN45,000 (USD36,000) penalty for trading illegally in tiger parts to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network that helped secure its conviction.