China largest market for various illegal wildlife products

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Asia, environmental goods |

China  is the biggest market in the world for tiger bone, leopard cat, rhino horn, and sea horse, and imports up to fifteen tons of ivory each year.

Source: Ben Davies, Black Market: Inside The Endangered Species Trade in Asia, (California: Earth Aware.2005) , pg. 29.

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