Europe's captive tiger trade 'risks spurring illegal demand'

Last year Polish border authorities found 10 emaciated and dehydrated big cats in the back of a truck taking them from Italy to a zoo in Russia's Dagestan Republic. PARIS: Trade in tigers bred in captivity in Europe risks encouraging illegal demand for the endangered big cats, according to a new report published on Wednesday by wildlife groups that warns lax oversight is enabling the grisly market for their body parts.

"The trade of captive tiger products not only complicates enforcement efforts, it also legitimises the use of tiger products and can stimulate market demand," said Heather Sohl, of WWF's Tigers Alive Initiative.Advertisement"European countries have been rightly vocal on the need to close tiger farms in Asia, but they too are an unlikely player in the global trade in tigers," Sohl said in a statement, calling for the EU to urgently ban the commercial tiger trade.

Many of these were for research purposes or zoos, while 43 were exported or re-exported for commercial purposes. "Inspections of facilities are infrequent, and the procedures to dispose of tigers after they die are poorly legislated and typically carried out by external companies without government oversight," said the report's author Louisa Musing of Traffic.

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