India destroys stockpile of illegal wildlife parts
Source: AP-EXCITE
NEW DELHI (AP) Indian authorities set fire Sunday to a stockpile of tiger skins, elephant tusks, rhino horns and other illegal animal parts in an effort to discourage wildlife smuggling in South Asia.
Animal poaching and smuggling have flourished in India, driven by black market demand from China, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries where many believe exotic animal parts have medicinal or aphrodisiacal properties. In most cases, there is no scientific evidence that they do.
Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar loaded more than 42,000 illegal animal parts into a large, blazing oven at the Delhi Zoo. The parts included tiger and leopard pelts, reptile skins, rhino horns and shawls made from endangered Tibetan antelope called shahtoosh.
Wildlife officials and members of the media crammed into the small room at the zoo to witness the inferno.
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A tiger skin is displayed before authorities set fire to a stockpile of illegal wildlife parts at the Delhi Zoo in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. A stockpile of tiger skins, elephant tusks, rhino horns and other illegal animal parts were burned Sunday in an effort to discourage wildlife smuggling in South Asia. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)indigenous wildlife, apparently they want to get rid of all animal species worldwide.
When backwards superstition gets combined with elevated purchasing power, bad things happen
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)China needs to do a lot more to educate its people and stop the illegal imports.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Why do some stupid hoomins have to do so much to add to the misery of creature-kind?
Just leave them alone. You don't have to shoot the last whatever to feel like a man. Or woman.
Go play Scrabble or something. Jerks.