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Pills, powders, vials & flakes: The bear bile trade in Asia [1]

Poaching and illegal trade of bears, driven largely by the demand for bile, used in traditional medicine and folk remedies continues unabated across Asia on a large scale, a report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, has found.

Publication Date: 
11/05/2011
Kaitlyn-Elizabeth Foley [2], Carrie J. Stengel [3], Chris R. Shepherd [4]
TRAFFIC [5]
Tags:
Wildlife [6], Endangered Species [7], Asia [8], China [9], Wildlife Trade [10], Illegal Trade [11], India [12], Poaching [13], Hong Kong [14], Malaysia [15], Myanmar [16], Vietnam [17]
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