Protect Wild Tigers From Poachers

Target: Ms. Hongyan Guo, Deputy Director, Wildlife Conservation Department, State Forestry Administration, People's Republic of China
Sponsored by: Care2.com

The beautiful wild tiger is heading quickly toward extinction, with its diminishing numbers estimated at a meager 3,500.

Indian studies suggest that if poaching increases, wild tigers will almost surely be pushed into extinction. Yet China is considering a policy that would open its market to tiger parts, which could entice more poaching of wild tigers. Although Chinese officials would keep the ban on wild tiger products, it is difficult to distinguish between wild and farmed tiger parts, and equally difficult to enforce.

Moreover, killing a tiger in the wild is 250 times cheaper than breeding and raising a tiger in captivity, and then killing it. Such a profit would be irresistible to poachers.

We must preserve the irreplaceable wild tiger by refusing to put a bounty its head. Urge China to keep its successful ban on the tiger part trade, and protect wild tigers from extinction.

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