NEW CHINESE REGULATION TO CONTROL WILDLIFE TRADE

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Dear AAPN colleagues,

Please check out the photo of a

tiger killing a live cow in a captive setting in China along with the news

at the website of today's Scotsman newspaper.

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1290222006

Regards,

 

Sincerely,

 

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1290222006

China finally acts to protect endangered species

 

TWENTY-ONE years after first agreeing to do so, China will today outlaw the

sale of internationally endangered flora and fauna.

 

Offering protection to 28,000 types of plant and 5,000 species of animal,

including the Chinese giant salamander, sturgeon and the Tibetan antelope,

prized internationally for its fine wool, the new regulations will ban the

import and export of endangered species for commercial purposes.

 

In 1993, China outlawed the use of tiger bones and rhino horns in

traditional medicine. However, a recent investigative report in the China

Youth Daily detailed how tiger farms are fermenting the carcases of tigers

in giant vats of wine. The resulting tonic is then openly sold as a supposed

cure for bone ailments and a variety of diseases, including malaria.

 

There are estimated to be fewer than 5,000 tigers left in the wild.

Entrepreneurs and local governments, though, have bred several thousand

tigers on farms.