Where does most of the illegal trade occur?
Despite major tiger conservation campaigns, poaching continues in most of the tiger range states, including Russia, China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Indonesia. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to increased poaching of the Siberian or Amur tiger. Today, increased enforcement of anti-poaching laws has helped the population of this subspecies to stabilize; however, poaching continues. Officials in Russia estimate that between 20 and 30 tigers were poached each year in 1998 and 1999.
