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Category: Tigers
The IWT 2018 London Conference – Call-to-action or Circus?
What’s the collective noun for the mass of governments, politicians, international organizations, agencies, research bodies, businesses, NGOs, conservationists, technicians, scientists, lawyers, military personnel, donors, celebrities […]
EIA Campaigner Receives International Recognition for Tireless Efforts to Give Wild Tigers a Future
After more than 20 years of determined commitment to protecting wild tigers, the Environmental Investigation Agency’s Tiger and Wildlife Crime Campaign Leader Debbie Banks has […]
69th Meeting of CITES Standing Committee Starts 27 November
The week-long 69th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee (SC69) starts Monday in Geneva with a packed agenda of 76 items that address the most […]
Global Tiger Day: 45 NGOs Unite in Call to End Tiger ‘Farming’ and Trade
Today on International Tiger Day we the undersigned 45 non-governmental organisations are urging countries with tiger farms to adopt urgent action to end tiger […]
Commercial Farming and Trade in Endangered Species in Vietnam – A Shortcut to Extinction
Hanoi, July 27, 2016 – Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV) today hosted a press conference on the need to fully prohibit farming and trade […]
UNODC Releases Unprecedented Wildlife Crime Report
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has published the first ever global assessment of wildlife crime. The World Wildlife Crime Report validates […]
Why is the ‘Fox’ in Charge of the U.N. Tiger ‘Hen House’?
“China farms tigers? Why didn’t I know that?” This is the most common comment I hear when I talk about China’s industrial tiger farms and […]
Tiger Range Countries Urged to Commit to Ending Tiger ‘Farming’ and Trade
As delegates prepare for the 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation, from April 12 to 14 in New Delhi, we the undersigned urge Ministers […]
Wildlife Criminal Plans to Import Tigers into Vietnam
Despite two previous criminal convictions involving wildlife crime, a man known as Pham Van Tuan has reportedly applied for a CITES permit to import nine […]