Interesting article by Barun Mitra 'Burning Bright' . China tries to balance its tiger breeding strategies and a thriving market in tiger bones.
I do have a scanned copy of the article. Not sure if its correct to post the scanned article.
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India Today, July 17th 06 article on China's Tigers...
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A good point stressed in the article is that China is trying to achieve a number where the natural death rate of tigers would be sufficient to cater to the medical needs. Though I am not ocnvinced about the medical benefits of the body parts of tigers.
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