Protecting Siberian Tigers - Illegal Trade in Tiger Organs

Posted on March 12th, 2010 by james and tagged , .

The BBC recently found that the Siberia Tiger Park, based in Heilongjiang Province in the northeast of China, is selling a "tiger bone wine" that contains three small tiger bones.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8563673.stm

The photos are from that exact tiger park, which I visited a few weeks ago. Not only do they sell the tiger wine, but there were a number of preserved tiger organs on display (heart, liver, kidney etc). Whilst they weren't officially for sale, there was a money counting machine that someone had left right next to them....

If you are in China, please do not buy any tiger based products. It is illegal. Whilst many (still illegal) products may come from tiger farms like this, the very existence of such a market encourages the poaching of tigers in the wild. The areas where tigers are still found are often also economically disadvantaged, making tiger poaching a very tempting occupation and endangering their precarious existence.

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