China would like to facilitate the trade and use of tiger bone and Rhino horn for the time being. State member of the Council Ding Xuedong said in an Interview with the official Xinhua news Agency, which announced in October and internationally violently criticized the Amendments had been moved to the corresponding studies.
The trade in tigers, rhinos and their parts of the body as well as their use for medical purposes remained strictly forbidden.
danger to wildlife
Tiger and Rhino parts are popular components of traditional Chinese folk medicine. At the end of October, announced the lifting of the General ban had international triggered sharp criticism from animal rights activists.
Siberian Tiger
The state Council in Beijing announced, to legalize the trade in tiger bone and Rhino horn from farmed animals. The environmental organisation WWF criticised, the re-establishment of a legal market also bring animals in the wild, in danger, because the demand Bahigo for them will rise.
ivory as a status symbol, belt, animal dander as a “medicine”
China had banned in 1993 trade in Rhino horns and tiger bones, but could not, according to the environmental market, with over Vietnam and products imported activists, a flourishing black prevent.
the ivory trade, regarded in China as a status symbol, is prohibited. Other illegal animal products, such as belt animal dander, are still in demand because of their supposed medicinal properties.
The trade has a long Tradition. Rhinoceros and tiger parts have been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine. While leading voices discourage parts in traditional Chinese medicine for years, officially, of the use of Rhino and Tiger, there is still an underground trade.
For years, the Rhino population suffers massively under the illegal trade of their horn. It is made of Keratin, the same Material as human finger nails.
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