Breeding tigers and trading them and their parts is banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, but this treaty is widely flouted in Asia because of poor law-enforcement and high demand for tigers. Belief in their medicinal properties has deep roots, especially in China. Tiger-bone wine, skins and jewellery featuring claws and teeth are status symbols. , officials reckon.
Some criminals choose to operate in Laos because “there’s no real rule of law” there, says Debbie Banks of the. Indeed, the government of Laos is allegedly complicit. America’s State Department recently reported that Laos was one of three countries that had recently “actively engaged in or knowingly profited from the trafficking of endangered or threatened species”.
Holy shit south-east Asia habits -shame-
Is there any other animal that is so beautiful in so many ways as a tiger?
Disgusting but in all things disgusting, one only needs to follow the money and there is sure to be found corruption and criminality of all kinds.