2010 was supposed to be the year that world leaders halted the rate of biodiversity loss on our planet.
The third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3), produced by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), explores what has been achieved so far and forecasts new consequences for people and communities across the world if more isn’t done to save species from extinction.
Protecting critical habitat by linking human and environmental security will save tigers
By Dr. Keith Martin, MP
A dead tiger can net a poacher up to $50,000. This illegal practice has decimated tiger populations worldwide.
It is hard to imagine a world without tigers. Yet today, there are fewer than 3,200 of these magnificent predators left on the planet. In the past century, their populations have plummeted from 100,000 to only about 2,500 breeding adults.
This catastrophic decline in tiger populations is a direct result of two things: 1) habitat destruction, and 2) relentless hunting for their bones, claws and teeth, which are used to make ornaments and products that falsely claim to have medicinal value. (more…)
Say “no” to tiger farms and help save tigers from extinction
There are fewer than 3,200 wild tigers left on the planet. Click here to join the campaign to save these magnificent creatures from extinction.
On Monday, Dec. 6. the Canadian Parliament’s International Conservation Caucus will host Ernie Cooper, Director of TRAFFIC & Wildlife Trade, for a discussion of trafficking in endangered species, how Canada is an international conduit for this illegal trade, and what Canada can do to thwart the organized criminal groups funding these activities.
Don’t miss this exciting event. Click here to see the invitation and to RSVP.
Save Tigers Now is a global campaign by World Wildlife Fund and Leonardo DiCaprio. Our goal is to build political, financial and public support to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger.
By Leonardo DiCaprio and Carter S. Roberts
Tigers have long provoked awe in the human imagination, becoming symbols of untamed nature whose “fearful symmetry,” in the words of William Blake, has inspired everything from art to advertising. In the wild, however, tigers are on the verge of disappearing.
A century ago, some 100,000 tigers roamed the wilderness across much of Asia. But 100 years of human overhunting of tigers’ prey, such as deer and wild pigs, and of poaching driven by demand for tigers’ skins and other body parts has been catastrophic. As few as 3,200 tigers remain, living in only 7 per cent of their original natural habitat. (more…)
World decision makers are paying inadequate attention to one of the strongest global tools in combating climate change, says a consortium of powerful international environmental organisations.
Two reports highlighting the importance of nature in our fight with climate change, Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth: Ecosystem-based approaches to Climate Change and Natural Solutions: Protected Areas Helping People Cope with Climate Change, were presented during the Protected Areas Day at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya. (more…)
