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Year of the Tiger Media Briefing to Address Wild Tiger Status Worldwide

A media briefing on Wednesday from leading tiger experts will address the status of tigers around the world, the threats they face and solutions to address their decline, including a special tiger summit in Vladivostok this September.

The briefing comes as many Asian countries prepare to celebrate Year of the Tiger beginning Sunday, Feb. 14 and WWF begins a year-long tiger campaign. An estimated 3,200 tigers are left in the wild and their numbers are declining from a combination of poaching, habitat loss, poorly planned development and illegal trafficking.

WHO:

The briefing, via teleconference/WebEx will feature:

--  Crawford Allan, Director of TRAFFIC-North America
--  Mike Baltzer, Director of WWF's Global Tiger Initiative
--  Lixin Huang, President of the American College of Traditional Chinese
    Medicine
--  Sybille Klenzendorf, Director of WWF-US Species Conservation Program
--  Keshav S. Varma, Program Director, Global Tiger Initiative, The World
    Bank Group

WHEN:

09:00 EDT Wednesday, February 10, 2010

(for time conversion in your time zone, go to: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_BS.aspx)

WHERE:

In person: WWF-US Headquarters, 1250 24th St., NW, Washington, DC 20037

Teleconference/WebEx:
Toll free-U.S. and Canada: 888-278-8465
Toll-U.S. and Canada: 913-981-5580

To view maps and other visuals via WebEx: http://tinyurl.com/yjuws4n

The teleconference will be recorded for later web access at www.worldwildlife.org/tigers

International Toll Free Lines (if your country is not listed, please contact Lee Poston at lee.poston@wwfus.org):

Argentina 0800-666-2304
Australia 1-800-635-889
Austria 0800-292-825
Bahamas 1-800-205-6428
Belgium 0800-755-14
Brazil 0800-891-9809
Chile 123-002-097-13
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China, Southern 10 800 140 1231
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Hungary 06-800-164-11
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Venezuela 0-800-100-8319

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