Tigers

A report to the World Wildlife Fund. The authors spent five weeks in India under the auspices of the World Wildlife Fund and the Government of India. The purpose of the mission was to visit a number of tiger reserves and, on the basis of this experience and discussion with Project Tiger staff, to recommend a system for the recording of vegetation, designed to monitor the effects of management practices on habitats.

This report is the third in an annual series on emerging trends in China’s wildlife trade. that aim to highlight wildlife trade trends in threatened and at-risk wildlife, with an emphasis on the impact of China’s trade on globally important biodiversity “hotspots”. These hotspots have a crucial influence on the survival of endangered species, where conservation action to reduce wildlife trade threats can bring about the greatest benefit.

South-east Asia is both a centre for the consumption of wildlife products, and also a key supplier of wildlife products to the world. Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Vietnam are among the south-east Asian countries that act as major sources of wildlife in trade, the trade involving a wide variety of native species, which, in many cases, are declining as a result of unsustainable, and often illegal, harvest.