Uploads from Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), tagged leopards

Shanghai customs inspect over 3 tonnes of African ivory seized in August, 2002, in a shipment of timber from Kenya. Credit: Shanghai Customs

nobody@flickr.com (Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:55:43 -0700

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) posted a photo:

Organised wildlife crime requires an organised enforcement response. The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime is a collaborative effort between leading inter-governmental enforcement agencies INTERPOL and the World Customs Organisation along with the CITES Secretariat, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the anti-money laundering / asset recovery division of the World Bank.

Credit: Shanghai Customs

Abandoned mines, filling with water.

nobody@flickr.com (Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:45:03 -0700

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) posted a photo:

Illegal and unsustainable mining destroys forests that are vital not only for people and water security, but as corridors for the movement of endangered species such as tigers and elephants. - .

EIA's Undercover Investigations

nobody@flickr.com (Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:37:42 -0700

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) posted a photo:

EIA’s undercover investigations reveal that the current demand for tiger and other Asian big cat skins in China is to cater for the market in luxury home décor. Lhasa, TAR, China
2006
Credit EIA/WPSI - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport.

Rebecca Chen poses as a buyer of tiger bone before sellers of a tiger skeleton.

nobody@flickr.com (Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:29:12 -0700

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) posted a photo:

Tigers are still being killed for their bones as a treatment for rheumatism, despite a 1993 government ban on the use of tiger bone in traditional Chinese medicine. Other big cats such as leopards, Asiatic & African lions and snow leopards are also targeted as a substitute for tiger. - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport.

Whole leopard skins stacked up on sale in a shop in Linxia, Gansu Province, China, August 2005.

nobody@flickr.com (Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:32:55 -0700

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) posted a photo:

All Asian big cats are threatened by illegal trade and demand for their skin, bones and other body parts. Wildlife crime is a form of serious, transnational organised crime, requiring an organised and targeted response. EIA investigators have documented repeat offenders apparently operating without fear of the law, like the traders selling these leopard skins in Linxia, Gansu Province, China
Credit Belinda Wright/WSPI/EIA

Tigers in Ranthambore National Park India

nobody@flickr.com (Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:38:25 -0700

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) posted a photo:

Who wants to live in a world without tigers? World leaders have committed to a global program to double the wild tiger population by 2022/ Success will be a sign of having overcome corruption, organised crime and poor environmental governance. The survival of the wild tiger symbolises our hope for a better future.

Vickers / www.tigersintheforest.co.uk

View of sleeping tigers in the tiger enclosure at Samut Pra Kan Crocodile Farm.

nobody@flickr.com (Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:31:59 -0700

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) posted a photo:

Trade in farmed tiger parts and derivatives, including tiger bone wine, perpetuates demand and undermines conservation efforts to save wild tigers. Credit Peter Richardson/EIA
2000 - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport.

TIGERS: skin costumes

nobody@flickr.com (Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:54:26 -0800

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) posted a photo:

Tiger skin costumes at Litang Horse Festival in Sichuan Province of China, August 2005.

©Belinda Wright / WPSI / Environmental Investigation Agency

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