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International Tiger Day

International Tiger Day, also known as Global Tiger Day, is an annual celebration to raise awareness for tiger

 conservation, held annually on 29 July. It was created in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit. The goal

 of the day is to promote a global system for protecting the natural habitats of tigers and to raise public awareness

 and support for tiger conservation issues.

Positive ways to move ahead on International Tiger 

Day

.

Monday, July 29 is International Tiger Day, and all over the world people will 

celebrate the great

 cat 

and all that it represents – environmental security, clean air, clean water and clean government.

International Tiger Day is a time to spread the word that saving the remaining wild tigers means

 saving

 ourselves – from climate disasters, from the scourges of corruption and organised crime, from a future

 void of

 the magnificence of nature.

EIA will be spending International Tiger Day participating in a tiger conservation workshop in China being

 hosted

 by the Government, with support from the Global Tiger Initiative and WWF.

makers, to spur them into action against the criminal networks that control the trade.It’s an 

opportunity for

 our tiger campaigners to engage directly with Chinese officials and decision-

We know from our own investigations and insights into the who, where, what, why and how of the trade,

 that a lot

 more could be done to disrupt these networks by using targeted law enforcement. Where there

 is a will,

 there is a way. The question is, whether the Government of China will put its money and resources 

where they

 are needed.

Demand reduction is an equally important aspect of combating illegal trade, but in China policies which

 support a

 parallel legal market for the skins of captive-bred tigers are proving highly counterproductive. 

This failed

 experiment is in factstimulating demand and thus driving the poaching of wild tigers and other Asian 

big cats.

With leadership, strong supportive policy and collaboration, however, demand reduction campaigns can be 

successful and this workshop provides an opportunity to focus on a positive way forward.

It would truly be an International Tiger Day worth 

celebrating if,

 in this 20th anniversary year of China’s domestic tiger

 bone

 trade ban, China extended that commitment to end all

 trade,

 in all tiger parts and products from all sources, wild and 

captive.

Action point: If you want to help make the changes the wild tiger

 needs, write to your Head of State and urge them to reach out to the

 new leadership of China, asking that every possible action is taken to end demand for tigers and other

 Asian

 big 

cats, including an unambiguous end to policies which promote trade and putting more investment into 

enforcement

 resources to disrupt the major criminal networks controlling international illegal trade.