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Protect Wild Tigers From Poachers

Target: Ms. Hongyan Guo, Deputy Director, Wildlife Conservation Department, State Forestry Administration, China
Sponsored by: Care2.com

The beautiful wild tiger is heading quickly toward extinction, with its diminishing numbers estimated at a meager 3,500.

Extensive poaching has decimated a number of species of rare animals, including tigers and the animals they prey on. Yet China is considering a policy that would open its market to tiger parts, which could entice more poaching of wild tigers. Chinese officials promise to keep the ban on wild tiger products. But that guarantee is a thin, unenforceable and inhumane distinction to draw between wild and farmed tiger parts.

Wild tigers struggle enough from rapidly shrinking habitat and food sources. Humans have hunted the tiger's primary prey, such as deer and wild pigs, almost to extinction. Lifting China's successful ban on the tiger part trade would only increase the threat from profit-driven poachers by placing an irresistible bounty on the head of wild tigers.

Please help protect the last remaining wild tigers from extinction. Sign our petition to China's Department of Wildlife Conservation today, and urge them to keep their effective ban on the tiger part trade.

deadline: 7-9-2009
goal: 50,000
 
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Dear Ms. Hongyan Guo,

Wild tigers are in crisis. With their population at an estimated 3,500, it is crucial for those who hold their fate to make the right decisions.

Opening the Chinese market to tiger products is not the right decision, and could drive wild tigers to extinction. Poaching, along with environmental degradation, is diminishing the wild tiger population; legalizing the trade of tiger parts would encourage even more poaching.

Killing a tiger in the wild is 250 times cheaper than raising it in captivity, a sad incentive for tiger part sellers seeking the most affordable way to obtain tiger parts. It is difficult to distinguish between wild and farmed tiger parts, and equally difficult to enforce, which will allow many to poach without facing the legal consequences.
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We signed the “Protect Wild Tigers From Poachers” petition!
# 42,329:
9:01 pm PDT, Jul 4, Diane Van Weelie, Netherlands
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12:34 pm PDT, Jul 4, Dee De Santis, New Jersey
I implore you not to lift the ban on the trade of tiger products. The tiger is a magnificent cat and the thought of tiger parts sickens me. Tiger Farming is disgusting and revolting, and is not the solution to “Save The Tiger.” The answer to saving these beautiful majestic creatures is to strengthen and strictly enforce laws to protect these cats in the wild. Tigers bred on farms are there for one reason, profit, not conservation. I am not an expert on tigers, but I do have a love and a passion for these beautiful, but sadly, highly endangered cats. Tiger farming is repulsive and barbaric and must be stopped. Tigers being bred on farms are there for one reason, profit. There is no conservation involved whatsoever. The wild tiger must be saved by strengthening and strictly enforcing the laws to protect them. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
# 42,327:
8:56 am PDT, Jul 4, Michael thomas Fisher, United Kingdom
# 42,326:
9:26 am PDT, Jul 2, Cynthia Davis, Virginia
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12:00 am PDT, Jul 1, Barbara Gruber, Canada
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8:37 am PDT, Jun 30, Sean Flagg, Canada
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12:16 pm PDT, Jun 28, Savannah Smith, Germany
THERE IS NO BIGGER BEAST THAN MAN!!!
# 42,322:
11:20 pm PDT, Jun 27, Eva DeRoche, Texas
# 42,321:
9:54 pm PDT, Jun 27, Rhonda Cavanagh, Australia
It is totally immoral to allow these beautiful animals to be harmed or killed. We need to be doing our utmost to protect them.
# 42,320:
6:02 pm PDT, Jun 27, Name not displayed, Australia
Tigers are such beautiful animals and you have the power to protect them. Please do not remove the ban.
# 42,319:
12:57 am PDT, Jun 27, Partha Guha, India
Dear Ms.Hongyan, Please do not lift your ban on the trade of tiger products.If you lift the ban then poaching will start in massive rate and the beautiful BIG CAT FAMILLY will be extinct for ever.
# 42,318:
4:32 pm PDT, Jun 26, Grace Spenley, United Kingdom
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9:48 am PDT, Jun 26, Name not displayed, Utah
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7:57 am PDT, Jun 25, Patrycja Sykala, United Kingdom
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10:57 pm PDT, Jun 24, Noelle Cruz, California
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7:38 pm PDT, Jun 24, Nancy Lanning, California
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1:59 pm PDT, Jun 24, Name not displayed, Illinois
# 42,312:
11:57 am PDT, Jun 24, Sheryl Chiaramonte, Arizona
This magnificent animal deserves our protection. Please continue the ban on the trade of tiger products and help rebuild the population of tigers and send a message to other countries that China cares about tigers and they too can take efforts to save animals from extinction.
# 42,311:
8:00 am PDT, Jun 24, Katira Tejeda, Massachusetts
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7:53 am PDT, Jun 24, Agnieszka Długaszek, Poland
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11:16 pm PDT, Jun 23, Vanessa Tibbles, Australia
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9:48 pm PDT, Jun 23, Name not displayed, Virgin Islands
Please! I don't know much about the poaching of tigers, but my sister told me how many tigers get poached a year and the number was frightening. They don't deserve this
# 42,307:
2:15 pm PDT, Jun 23, Jocelyn Pachal, Michigan
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12:42 pm PDT, Jun 23, Daile O'Connor, New Jersey
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11:01 pm PDT, Jun 22, Ujskamgj Ujskamgj, Japan
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1:24 pm PDT, Jun 22, MARIA KANTARTZ, Greece
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7:09 am PDT, Jun 22, Pinelopi Demetriadou, Cyprus
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7:09 am PDT, Jun 22, Fotis Loizou, Cyprus
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3:46 am PDT, Jun 22, Maria Benz, Florida
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