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Judy Mills - Director Campaign Against Tiger Trafficking (CATT)
 Seattle native Ms. Mills
made her mark in tiger conservation in 1999 with publication of
TRAFFIC’s Killed For a Cure:
A Review of the Worldwide Trade in Tiger Bone, which she co-authored
with Peter Jackson, then head of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group.
At that time, she was
Regional Director of TRAFFIC East Asia, based in Hong Kong.
Judy was a journalist and
editor in the 1980s, until International Wildlife Magazine sent
her to Thailand
to write a story about the Korean practice of killing
bears for gall bladders used in traditional medicine. This assignment
changed her professional life, prompting her to take up a masters
program that combined the principals of wildlife management with
sociology and Asian history. She researched the trade in bear gall
bladders in 11 Asian countries, the results of which were published by
TRAFFIC in 1991 and used to support the listing of all bear species
under regulation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Judy worked with TRAFFIC
until January 2000, when she joined WWF in Washington, D.C., to
coordinate their global tiger-conservation strategy. From
September 2001 to August 2005, she was Asia Grant Director for the
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF). As of August 2005, she is
combining her knowledge of the Asian trade in wildlife with her skills
in encouraging conservation alliances to head Save the Tiger
Fund’s Campaign Against Tiger Trafficking (CATT).
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