Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

From the China Daily. Eating wild animals is also a traditional practice in southern China. Illegal trade in tiger meat and bones is also alive, continuing to threaten the extinction of an already depleted species, he said. The Chinese want them for exotic foods and for medicine.

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Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2009

In its biggest seizures of pangolins this year, Malaysia’s Wildlife and National Parks Department confiscated 98 animals from a house in Alor Setar in the northern state of Kedah. Tags: wildlife crime Traditional Chinese Medicine trafficking china malaysia. From Red Orbit. pounds of pangolin scales. pounds of pangolin scales. "We

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The shark is thrown back because shark fins are often more valuable than the meat itself. For example, shark fin soup is a delicacy in most of Asia, especially China. In fact, dried shark fin can go for as much as $300 a pound or more. The fins are then utilized in a wide variety of ways, especially in areas of Asia.

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