Trafficking figures bode ill for tigers
22 Aug. 2019
India,
with the world’s largest wild tiger population, topped in the
trafficking of tigers and tiger body parts over 19 years since 2000, a
new TRAFFIC analysis from Geneva has revealed.
The report titled
‘Skin and Bones Unresolved: An Analysis of Tiger Seizures from
2000-2018’ was the fourth in a series on tiger trade by TRAFFIC, a
wildlife trade monitoring network headquartered in the United Kingdom.
The
analysis said that there has been no respite for the “heavily-hunted”
tiger with an estimated average of more than 120 individuals seized
each year from 2000 to 2018.
Apart from tiger skin and bones, live tigers are also traded illegally in a number of cases.
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