FW: Take Actions to Save Tigers

[Guest guest]

> It is encouraging to see the outrage expressed by viewers to the US TV network

ABC 20/20 show which promoted tiger farming for trade. Wild tigers are in a

precarious enough position to have people scheming how to put a price on their

heads and wiping them out faster.

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> Farming tigers for trade would do just that. Tiger farms are set up and run by

a few rich businessmen in China to make profit from wildlife. The purpose for

tiger farming has always been for trade, never conservation, driven by profit

from the sales of tiger bone wine and skin.

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> At present, all commercial trade in tigers and their products is illegal. But

as long as there are tiger farms that promise a future legalization of tiger

trade, the ban cannot be effective. Every player in the trade chain is

criminally responsible for the depletion of tigers in the wild, from poachers to

smugglers to traders and to those who promote tiger trade: investors and owners

of tiger farms.

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> Everyone can take action to save tigers.

> >You can go to the International Tiger Coalition website:

www.endtigertrade.org or the YouTube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/EndTigerTradeNow to watch a video on tiger farming.

Please share the video with your friends.

> >You can get the facts about tiger farming, also at www.endtigertrade.org

> >You can go to the ITC Face book page,

http://www.facebook.com/pages/End-Tiger-Trade/79372287341?ref=ts become a fan

and promote it to your social circle of friends.

> >You can watch, read and comment on ABC's program at

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/AmazingAnimals/comments?type=story & id=7529068

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> Last, but not least, you can sign a letter at the link below to the Chinese

Embassy urging China to keep and enforce the tiger trade ban to save wild

tigers.

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http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_united_states/get_involved/take_action/take_action.php?\

msource=DR090502001#x

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> Thank you,

> Grace Ge Gabriel

> Asia Regional Director, IFAW-International Fund for Animal Welfare

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