WildCat Conservation Legal Aid Society is a member organization of the International Tiger Coalition!

The International Tiger Coalition (ITC) is an alliance of 42 members representing more than 100 organizations across the globe, united under the common aim of stopping trade in tiger parts and products from all sources. The ITC is part of the Save the Tiger Fund program of the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation’s Campaign Against Tiger Trafficking. More information on ITC is available at: www.savethetigerfund.org

Core ITC members attended the 58th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee, in Geneva, Switzerland. A meeting on Asian Big Cats and the Parties response to Decision 14.69 was held. ITC presented a letter to participants in Response to the Notification of the Parties Number 2008/059 on Tiger Breeding Operations. ITC Letter on Tiger Breeding Operations

“The World Bank played an unexpectedly important role at the 58th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Standing Committee in Geneva. They made a very strong statement on the need to uphold the tiger trade bans—being pushed for rescinding by a powerful Chinese tiger farm lobby—and called for the phasing out of tiger farms. The International Tiger Coalition (ITC) applauded this statement, which could well change the direction of the debate on tiger farms in Southeast Asia.”

More on The World Bank’s comments and ITC’s “Uphold the Ban” are available at: www.globaltigerinitiative.org and www.facebook.com/EndTigerTrade.

To learn more about what some experts are suggesting related to tiger breeding as a method to quash poaching see: www.google.com/hostednews/afp

 

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