China's Reversal of a Rhino Horn and Tiger Bones Ban Alarms Conservationists

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Source: Time

By CASEY QUACKENBUSH / HONG KONG 5:34 AM EDT

Reversing a 25-year-old ban, China announced Monday that it will allow the use and trade of rhino and tiger parts, enraging conservationists who warn the move will further jeopardize already imperiled species.

China’s State Council said the ban, enacted in 1993, would be partially lifted to allow tiger and rhino parts to be used for medicine, scientific research and “cultural exchanges,” underscoring that the trade will be strictly controlled and the products must come from animals in captivity.

But wildlife activists are infuriated by the reversal. They say the move could further threaten to push tigers and rhinos into extinction by emboldening traffickers to poach and stockpile goods for a country that places exceptional value on the animals’ parts.

“If a poachers think that there’s even a possibility of laundering the product, that will be enough to increase their activities,” says Colman O’Criodain, a wildlife trade specialist at the World Wildlife Fund. “Basically, people are betting on extinction.”

Read more: http://time.com/5438693/china-tiger-rhino-ban-medicine/

[geardaddy]

1. Fuck that shit!

[jmbar2]

2. It's all about their peepees

pitiful

[MrScorpio]

3. Yeah, let's just kill off all the animals

Fuck these people.

[scarytomcat]

4. thats conservationists not conservatives

this proves that there are no more conservatives or they would be outraged as us liberal/progressives are

[NickB79]

5. Poison a batch of confiscated bone and horn

And release it back into circulation. Fuck them, let them die at this point.

[Coventina]

6. I like that idea! Make the "magic potion" poison.

Then maybe they'll stop their stupid belief in it.

[NickB79]

7. A biological version of Project Eldest Son

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Eldest_Son

Basically, the US made ammo that looked like Vietnamese ammo, but it exploded when fired, killing the soldier and sowing fear in others.

[YOHABLO]

8. So the use of these animal bones is concocted into some potion to cure ''all things'' including ED?

How ridiculous.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Vicious pigs taking over there, too. Good grief. If only the humans could stop them. n/t

[Jedi Guy]

10. Just goes to show the persistence of superstition.

Study after study has shown no benefit to ingesting these substances. Hell, you might as well powder human fingernails and pound it back. It's made of keratin, just like rhino horns.

But heaven forbid that a guy lose the ram in his rod. Against that, what's a little extinction matter? The rhinos and tigers will just have to take one for the team.