By YOJNA GUSAI New Delhi, July 18: Arguing that it has a right to kill its captive tigers and criticising those against tiger farming, China tried to stall India's effort in bringing in more efforts and strengthening global tiger conservation programmes, at the just concluded standing committee meeting of UN's Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). No decision could take place on the document introduced by India, which had sought an update on regional enforcement network and tiger conservation measures. The meeting ended without taking any decision on the contentious tiger farming issue. India had sought reports including measurable benchmarks and indicators evaluating the implementation of tiger conservation and trade enforcement efforts by participating countries. India and other tiger-bearing countries are dead against tiger farming, which they say will put wild tigers under threat. Environment Investigation Agency (EIA), in its latest undercover operation has revealed that tiger parts are freely available in China, despite a ban by the Chinese government. This operation also showed that Asian big cat skins are sourced from countries like India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Vietnam. India has the largest number of wild tigers (1,411) while China has some 50 wild tigers and more than 5,000 tigers in captivity. China has the biggest market for illegal wildlife products and investigations have revealed that more than 95 per cent of poached Indian tigers are found in China, where their body parts are used in Chinese traditional medicines. Despite an official ban on tiger parts, tiger body parts are freely available in China which wants CITES permission to revoke the ban, so that it can engage in domestic trade in tiger parts so that products such as tiger bone wine and tiger meat can be legally made available. Last year, 171 member countries of CITES had urged China to phase out its commercial tiger farms by a consensus. "Chinese tiger farms are a major threat to wild tigers as their products will ignite a huge demand for tiger parts specially tiger bones, which can be obtained from smugglers at a price much cheaper than those from farmed tigers," said vice-chairman, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), Ashok Kumar. Conservationists fear that if tiger farming is given a legal status, it will put under threat wild tiger population as it is easier to kill a tiger than to breed it in a farm.