Two tigers at an average are killed per week: WWF

July 29, 2014 18:26

Global conservation organisation WWF today sounded an alarm over poaching of tigers and said that at an average, two wild cats are killed per week due to high demand of their body parts in Asian countries.

It also said wild tigers were facing the risk of extinction in some countries due to a lack of accurate information on their population. "Poaching is the greatest threat to wild tigers today. Along with ivory and rhino horn, tiger parts are in high demand throughout Asia," the WWF said in a release coinciding with Global Tiger Day.

It said that statistics from TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, show that a minimum of 1590 tigers were "seized" between January 2000 and April 2014.

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