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Zero tolerance is the only way to preserve the last wild tigers LONDON: The Environmental Investigation Agency today endorses a new petition calling on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on tiger trade. The petition has been organised by TigerTime, an initiative of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation which has garnered mass [...]
Unless you’ve been hiding out in a Buddhist monastery or have diligently avoided the countless supermarkets shoehorning dried figs and tinsel into festive displays long before Halloween’s rubber masks and fake cobwebs were done with, you can’t have failed to spot that Christmas is just around the corner. This year you can show your friends [...]
This baking challenge aims to bake the perfect crime-cake. Please don’t be put off by the appearance of this crime-cake; I’ll admit it looks a bit unconventional, as it comes in the shape of a triangle. But never mind, that doesn’t mean it’s less tempting than a regular cake (in fact, to those who [...]
A briefing on the two parallel markets for Asian Big Cat products, one from captive-bred animals and one from wild animals.
Animal lovers around the world gasped in horror last week as events unfolded in Ohio . I was horrified to switch on BBC News on the Wednesday and hear of the massacre, in which dozens of animals which had apparently escaped from a private zoo in Zanesville were shot dead by police. The newsreader warned [...]
We’re nearly one year on from the International Tiger Forum in St Petersburg, Russia, where just five leaders of Tiger Range Countries attended in a show of commitment to double the wild tiger population by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger. Can we really say we’ve seen any progress since then? I don’t mean, [...]