India and China trying to protect tigers

Wildlife officials from China and India are working on an agreement to protect India’s dwindling Bengal tiger population, which activists say can only be saved by a complete clamp down on the illicit trade in skins and parts of big cats killed by poachers.

“India has been working closely with China and Nepal on ways to curb the tiger trade,” and officials from Beijing and New Delhi held talks on the matter last week in the Indian capital, said Kalpana Palkhiwala, the spokeswoman of India’s ministry of environment and forests.