Changchun (CNS) -- So far, 13 countries have vowed to play a part in a "zero tiger poaching" campaign initiated by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Changchun, capital city of northeast China's Jilin Province, launched its program on Thursday.
Heads of governments from tiger range states met in November 2010 at the first ever Tiger Summit to finalize a Global Tiger Recovery Program, in the hope that they can double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, according to the WWF.
Traps are the main threat to Manchurian tigers in the wilderness, showed a WWF report on a sample of nine woodlands in Jilin and Heilongjiang, the two major tiger habitats of China.
Due to the universal nature of the tiger poaching phenomenon, the WWF, one of the world's largest independent environmental protection NGOs, started a coordinated global campaign. It is expected to last for 18 months and expand to 50 global tiger habitats by 2013, all under governmental endorsement.
As a part of the campaign, Jilin is collaborating with its neighboring Russian province to champion this important cause.
