tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20766328854888640802011-04-21T21:17:26.115-07:00Save the TigersAdminnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076632885488864080.post-4617584666840112562008-05-29T11:31:00.000-07:002008-11-04T11:32:14.527-08:00<p style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51); TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><strong><em>Fewer than 4,000 tigers remain in the wild</em></strong></p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">Despite the international and domestic bans on tiger trade, industrialized farms across China are intensively breeding tigers. Some farms are already selling products claimed to contain tiger bone, actively stimulating market demand.</span><br /></div><p><img height="223" src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account5251/images/tiger2_300x223.jpg" width="300" mce_src="https://www.kintera.com/accounttempfiles/account5251/images/tiger2_300x223.jpg" /><br /></p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">Tigers that would normally have a range of hundreds of square miles are kept in cages…tiger are paired to speed-breed in order to produce the maximum amount of litters…tiger cubs are taken away from their mother as early as </span><strong style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">3 months</strong><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)"> so the tigress can breed again, while in the wild cubs would be with their mother for up to </span><strong style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">3 years</strong><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)"> learning basic survival skills.</span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">Despite the ban in the trading of tiger parts, illegal tiger wine is still sold in markets. In the cellar of a tiger farm-affiliated wine factory, a sales manager boasted about 400 huge barrels, “each containing a tiger carcass, brewing tiger bone wine.”</span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">The trade of tiger parts threatens the very survival of the world’s few remaining wild tigers. It stimulates market demand for tiger parts, and provides incentive to poaching wild tigers. Costing as little as a bullet or a wire snare, poaching of wild tigers always undercuts the cost of farming tigers for trade, making poaching and trading of wild tigers more profitable. With wild tiger numbers so dangerously low, any increase in poaching will wipe them out.</span><br /></div><p><br /><a style="COLOR: rgb(51,255,51)" href="http://www.indiantiger.org/wildlife-conservation/save-tiger.html"><strong style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Help keep the tiger trade ban in place</strong></a><br /><br /></p><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">To celebrate the 15th anniversary of China’s successful ban on tiger trade, there are two actions you can take to help protect wild tigers:</span></span></div><p><span style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"></span></p><ul style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"><a href="http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=186261&amp;aid=10421&amp;msource=DR080511001" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=186261&amp;aid=10421&amp;msource=DR080511001"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10;">USA: Urge your Congressional representative</span></a> <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">to sign a letter, originated by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Washington), to the Chinese Government supporting China’s ban on the trade in tigers.</span> </span></li><li><a href="https://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=196375&amp;msource=DR080511001" target="_blank" mce_href="https://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=196375&amp;msource=DR080511001"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10;">Everyone: Donate now to help fund IFAW’s campaigns to save the last of the world’s wild tigers</span></a> </li></ul><p style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">Please don’t let this be the end of wild tigers.<br /></p><p style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,51)">Thank you.</span><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2076632885488864080-461758466684011256?l=newhopeunitedtigers.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Adminnoreply@blogger.com0