https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/grim-news-for-tigers-bears-as-china-wildlife-law-allows-farming-medical-use/2016/01/29/e991dde0-c5d7-11e5-b933-31c93021392a_story.html?utm_term=.3df5b39943bc
More than 10,000 bears are also farmed, most kept in small cages, with their bile periodically — and painfully — extracted for use in household products and traditional Chinese medicine. Pangolins face extinctionbecause of their use in Chinese medicine.
More than 10,000 bears are also farmed, most kept in small cages, with their bile periodically — and painfully — extracted for use in household products and traditional Chinese medicine. Pangolins face extinctionbecause of their use in Chinese medicine.
Conservationists had hoped that the revised law, eagerly anticipated and years in the making, would put a stop to those practices and emphasize wildlife protection rather than commercial exploitation. Instead, they say, their pleas have been largely ignored, and they call the new law not just a missed opportunity but in many ways a step backward.
“China needs a wildlife protection law, not a wildlife utilization law,” said Iris Ho, of Humane Society International in Washington. “Legitimizing commercial breeding facilities that have no conservation benefit is akin to giving animal cruelty a stamp of approval.”
Grace Gabriel, Asia regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said wildlife farming in China was already stimulating demand, providing a cover for poaching and helping to wipe out many species in the wild. The revised law would exacerbate that situation, she added.
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