Groups Release TV Spot Urging Nations To Reject Reopening ofChinaTiger Trade

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Message source: Wildlife Protection Society of India <wpsi

 

The International Tiger Coalition has just released a powerful new TV

spot to urge China to keep its ban on tiger trade. The film was

created for us by WildAid and it can be viewed at

www.endtigertrade.org

The four minute film is easy to download and I strongly urge you to see it.

 

With best wishes, Belinda

 

29 May 2007

International Tiger Coalition

 

Groups Release TV Spot Urging Nations To Reject Reopening of China

Tiger Trade

 

London – In advance of the world's largest wildlife trade meeting next

week, 35 organisations have launched a powerful, 4-minute television

spot urging China to keep its ban on tiger trade.

 

One of the UK's leading actors, Martin Jarvis, lent his voice to the

spot, which details the consequences that reopening legal trade would

have on wild tigers. The public service announcement can be viewed at

www.endtigertrade.org.

 

Investors in massive, captive tiger breeding centers in China are

putting pressure on the Chinese government to lift its successful

14-year-old ban on trade in tiger parts so they can legally sell

products like tiger bone wine and tiger meat. The topic is expected to

be discussed next week when officials from 171 nations gather for

meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered

Species (CITES) in The Netherlands.

 

" Closing China's tiger markets has helped take the pressure off wild

tiger populations across Asia, " said Steve Trent of WildAid. " If China

lifts its ban, it will make it open season on tigers in the wild. The

crime syndicates that control the black market for tiger parts will

use such a legal market to `launder' poached tigers through. By

keeping the ban, China will demonstrate its continued commitment and

global leadership for tiger conservation. "

 

To oppose such a move, 35 environmental, zoo and animal protection

organizations, as well as the traditional Chinese medicine community,

have joined together as the International Tiger Coalition. The

coalition is calling for an end to trade in tiger parts and products

through increased intelligence-led law enforcement and strengthening

existing tiger trade bans.

 

" Next week's CITES meeting gives world leaders an opportunity to speak

up for one of the world's most endangered and most hunted animals, "

said Debbie Banks of the Environmental Investigation Agency. " People

around the world who care about tigers must let their governments know

that they want them to oppose any resumption of tiger trade anywhere. "

 

Tiger supporters can take action at www.endtigertrade.org.

 

Aaranyak * American College of Traditional * Animal

Welfare Institute *

Animals Asia Foundation *Association of Zoos & Aquariums * Born Free

Foundation * Born Free USA *

British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums * Care for the

Wild International * Conservation International * Council of Colleges

of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine* David Shepherd Wildlife

Foundation * Environmental Investigation Agency * Global Tiger Patrol

* Humane Society International * Humane Society of the United States *

International Fund for Animal Welfare * PeunPa * Ranthambhore

Foundation * Save The Tiger Fund * Species Survival Network * The

Corbett Foundation * Tigris Foundation * TRAFFIC * 21st Century Tiger

* WildAid * Wildlife Alliance * Wildlife Conservation Nepal * Wildlife

Conservation Society * Wildlife Protection Society of India * Wildlife

Trust of India * World Association of Zoos & Aquariums * World Society

for the Protection of Animals * WWF * Zoological Society of London

 

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