Putting an end to tiger poaching
Emergency funds
WWF's Tiger Initiative is raising emergency funds to launch immediate action against poaching in the most critical tiger landscapes.
This money will be used to support:
- Anti-poaching efforts in and around protected areas
- Awareness campaigns against the trade and consumption of tiger parts and products
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More boots on the ground
The valiant efforts of the field staff, officials and communities on the frontlines of tiger conservation, working every day to protect the tiger and its habitat, are to be commended. Yet those efforts are being undermined by poachers, who are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to kill tigers.
The most important and relatively simple step towards Zero Poaching is to increase the number of field staff working in the core areas, ensure that they are well-managed and resourced and that they are given respect and motivation to encourage them to lead at the forefront of tiger population recovery everyday.
The most important and relatively simple step towards Zero Poaching is to increase the number of field staff working in the core areas, ensure that they are well-managed and resourced and that they are given respect and motivation to encourage them to lead at the forefront of tiger population recovery everyday.
Confiscated Siberian tiger skins.
Long-term action
WWF's Tiger Initiative is working with TRAFFIC to curb the trade in tiger parts and products, so that this trade is no longer a driving poaching and threatening wild tigers.
Our longer-term strategic activities include:
- Close markets for tiger parts and products both in and outside tiger range countries, focusing on trade-routes, processors, and consumers
- Close all existing tiger farms, especially in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand
- Prevent any legal commercialization of dead tiger body parts
- Ensure all tiger range countries have fully CITES-compliant national legislation and fully implement such legislation as well as other CITES Resolutions and Decisions on tigers and Asian big cats
- Establish transboundary customs posts to foster international cooperation and liaison, focusing on the Russia/China, China/Vietnam, India/Myanmar, Bangladesh/Myanmar and India/Bangladesh borders
- Establish and coordinate intelligence networks and ensure intelligence-based law enforcement in strategic locations, including Southeast Asia (particularly Malaysia and Thailand), Sumatran landscapes, and the Greater Mekong Landscape (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam)
- Develop the first phase of a Global Tiger Trade Information System for overall enhanced enforcement effectiveness through better trade-route hotspot detection.
