综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

   

Ban on trade in tiger parts stays

By Wang Zhuoqiong (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-05-31 13:54

Forestry authorities have pledged to maintain the 14-year-old ban on trade in all tiger derivatives despite intense lobbying from commercial groups to lift the ban.

Liu Xiongying, spokesman for the State Forestry Administration (SFA), said the government remains committed to the policy, introduced in 1993 to wipe out the market for traditional medicines made from tigers.

"China will strengthen the crackdown on illegal trade of tiger parts and forge cooperation with other countries to protect tiger habitats," Liu told China Daily.

Liu was responding to a recent report that some businesses have been lobbying the government to allow domestic trade of captive-bred tiger parts for use in traditional medicine and their skins for clothing.

"Any lifting of the ban would lead to an increase in demand for these products, which in turn would result in more poaching of wild tiger populations," said Steven Broad, executive director of the Trade Records Analysis of Flora and Fauna in Commerce (TRAFFIC), the wildlife trade monitoring network that compiled the report.

"The resumption of this trade would be highly damaging to China's wild tiger conservation efforts and the international reputation of the country."

The report said the ban has virtually eliminated the domestic market for tiger products in traditional medicines.

"In the early 1990s, we feared that Chinese demand for tiger parts would drive the tiger to extinction by the new millennium," said Broad.

"The tiger survives today thanks in large part to China's prompt, strict and committed action."

Enforcement measures range from promotion of effective substitutes for tiger medicines to severe punishment for law-breakers.

Globally, about 7,000 tigers live in the wild; and around 9,000 are raised in farms, of which 4,000 are in China.



Top China News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
福海县| 拜城县| 双峰县| 乳山市| 平顶山市| 依安县| 子洲县| 武安市| 甘泉县| 吴桥县| 北海市| 广州市| 伊金霍洛旗| 昌都县| 拉萨市| 广灵县| 措勤县| 土默特右旗| 孟津县| 玉树县| 元氏县| 武川县| 襄垣县| 宁国市| 宁安市| 漠河县| 大同县| 广安市| 日土县| 襄樊市| 娄烦县| 且末县| 明光市| 崇阳县| 乐业县| 恩平市| 永康市| 东丽区| 江陵县| 威海市| 二手房|