India rejects modification on China tiger farms by EU

India has rejected a proposal by the European Union to modify an existing decision for China to phase out Chinese tiger farms.

India made an intervention at the ongoing Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Conference of Parties in Doha, after the European Union suggested that tiger-range countries adopt an EU reporting system for making a wildlife crime database. The EU has suggested that the EU-TWIX database system be followed by tiger-range countries. And while the proposal also asks for phasing out of tiger farms, India thinks the proposal was not discussed with tiger-range countries, which are Asian, before being presented.

Further, India does not want any tampering with a previous decision in which CITES, the apex body for monitoring wildlife trade, pressed China for shutting tiger farms, keeping them only to a level which “supports” conservation of wild tigers, meaning minimising captive tiger farming as much as possible. As a result of another previous intervention made by India, it was decided that China report to the international body how it was shutting down its farms.

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