Tigers: Closing a deadly gateway

Black markets along Myanmar, Thailand and China’s shared borders play a crucial role facilitating the deadly illicit trade in tigers. With as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild, “illegal trade poses the most immediate and dire threat to the survival of tigers,” says TRAFFIC Southeast Asia Regional Director, William Schaedla. You can read the report here.
NOTE: This footage of butchered tigers is extremely graphic and may upset some viewers.
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From November 21-24, heads of governments from tiger range states will meet at a Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia to finalize a Global Tiger Recovery Program: a plan that aims to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. Our wildlife trade expert Ernie Cooper will be blogging about the summit next week.
It’s not to late to make a difference. You can roar for tigers and support our work to double the wild tiger population by the next Chinese Year of the Tiger in 2022.

Tiger skin (c) Adam Oswell / TRAFFIC