China tiger trade ban won't last : official - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

China tiger trade ban won't last : official
Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:56PM EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will inevitably lift its ban on the
trade of tiger bones and body parts, a wildlife official told
state media, saying groups seeking to profit from the
government's captive-bred tigers were too strong to resist.

China was rebuked last week at a U.N. wildlife conference
after it said it planned to lift a domestic ban that has
been in place since 1993 if a scientific review proved it
would reduce poaching and help stocks of wild tigers
worldwide.

"The ban is in place," Wang Wei, wildlife deputy director at
the State Forestry Administration told Tuesday's China Daily.

"But it is open for review ... The ban won't be there forever,
given the strong voices from tiger farmers, experts and
society," Wang said.

"It will be a waste if the resources of dead tigers are not
used in traditional medicine," he added.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSPEK22496620070619

[Nihil]

1. Bastards.

> "It will be a waste if the resources of dead tigers are not
> used in traditional medicine," he added.

Nothing about the waste of a valuable and increasingly rare life
before the tiger becomes "a resource" for the snake-oil salesmen.

What *is* it about those people?
:grr: