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Thursday, June 14,2007
NEW DELHI: Tigers will not be bred for trade in their parts and derivatives. On Wednesday, 169 member-countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meeting at The Hague, passed a resolution, dashing China’s plan — backed by a business model of farming captive-bred tigers — to undo a 14-year-old ban on tiger trade.
The resolution came as a hard-fought victory for the Indian delegation that had lobbied frenetically over the last few days with other key players at CITES to ensure China’s proposal to open trade in tiger derivatives was defeated.
India notched an unexpected victory with even China agreeing to formally sponsor the document, suggesting that the trade ban continue and that captive breeding of tigers be kept at a level supportive only in conserving tigers in the wild. The resolution stands contrary to China’s initial position on the issue, though over the last few days,
it had begun to dilute its stand, realising that there was overwhelming international opposition.
Last month, a Chinese delegation visited India in an attempt to gauge New Delhi’s views on the proposal to open domestic trade in tiger parts, and to farm tigers brought up in captivity. China has several thousand captive-bred tigers and less than 30 in the wild.
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