In a recent news, India and China said they together want to work in order to protect their remaining tiger population from extinction.
“I would like to work very closely with the Chinese on tiger conservation. China is one of the reasons our tiger population is being decimated,” Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister told the Financial Times. According to estimates, there are between 800 to 1,300 tigers left in the wild in India.
He added that the tiger conservation was part of a proposed bilateral agenda on environment and natural resources that included sharing information and expertise on Himalayan glaciers and regional water resources.
Tiger trade has been a contested issue for both India and China. Tigers are illegally hunted for their parts to be sold and used in traditional Chinese medicine. This factor plus the rapid loss of original habitat have led tiger populations to rapidly decline.
So far, 15 tigers have been illegally killed this year based on a Wildlife Protection Society of India report. In 2009, 32 tigers were killed through poaching and seizures.
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