Feb 28
Tiger Bone Wine Trade Reveals China’s Two-Faced Approach To Conservancy (NSFW)
Posted in: Today's ChiliA new report by the U.K.-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an international advocacy group, suggests that China is knowingly violating its own ban on the trade of tiger bones, as stipulated in a 1993 State Council measure.
Among other things, the report, “Hidden in Plain Sight: China’s Clandestine Tiger Trade,” alleges that the government is allowing the use of captive-bred tiger bones for tonic wines thought to have medicinal properties. The EIA believes that several tiger farms in China are using what they claim is a secret government notification issued in 2005 as proof their tiger wine operations are legal.
The head of group’s tiger campaign, Debbie Banks, expressed outrage on the EIA’s website:
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