Tiger bone wine sale
December 2011. The Chinese Government has banned a private auction of 400 bottles of tiger wine, made from crushed tiger bones, which was planned to take place in China. It comes at a time when there is increasing concern about the practice of farming tigers and the imminent threat that the tiger in the wild is facing extinction. There are estimated to be only 3,200 wild tigers left on the planet.
Hundreds of TigerTime supporters responded to the call from the TigerTime Campaign Team to email Chinese officials demanding that the auction be banned.
David Shepherd
The renowned artist and conservationist Davis Shepherd CBE, whose Foundation set up the TigerTime campaign on his 80th birthday in June 2011 said, ‘China is allowing a so called ‘licensed' trade in tiger skins and body parts from so called ‘tiger farms'. The practice of ‘farming' tigers is barbaric in its own right. They are treated like battery hens. Worse still, farming helps support a demand for tiger skins, bones and other body parts that is the perfect smokescreen for the continued shooting, trapping and poisoning of wild tigers. I'm delighted that this horrific auction has been cancelled but the world needs a total ban on all trade in tiger parts if the tiger is to be saved'.
Sam Fox
The former model and now International singer Samantha Fox, one of the celebrities helping lead the TigerTime campaign said, ‘This just shows that people power can work and does work. We've helped stop this awful auction. I'm thrilled we've helped to pull this off - but there is so much more to do. The Chinese Government must ban ALL trade in ANY tiger or Asian big cat body parts from ANY source if we are to save the wild tiger'.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/tiger-wine-sale.html
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