Barun Mistra, managing trustee of the Liberty Institute, says the grounds for farming tigers are sound. In a talk on 15 November in Washington DC, Mistra argued that commerce, not conservation, was needed to protect wild tigers. Mistra did not respond to New Scientist‘s request for an interview, but his views, and the fact that he has worked closely with the Chinese authorities, are well known in conservation circles. He believes that by flooding the market with cheap farmed-tiger products, it will become uneconomic to hunt wild tigers, and millions of dollars can be raised to conserve them.