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Mongabay: Bear bile trade, both legal and illegal, ubiquitous in Asia
Surveying 13 nations and territories in Asia, the wildlife trade organization TRAFFIC found that the bear bile trade remains practically ubiquitous in the region. In many cases the trade, which extracts bile from captive bears' gall bladders for sale as a pharmaceutical, flouts both local and international law, including Appendix I of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES ). The international......
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Bear bile trade, both legal and illegal, ubiquitous in Asia
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 16th, 2011
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