Alive, they are sold to zoos or small menageries. When dead, their skin, claws or bones are transformed into traditional remedies or luxury products…
For 10 years, he investigated the tiger trade in Asia. FOUR PAWS International shines a light on Karl Ammann’s new documentary.
For 10 years, he investigated the tiger trade in Asia. FOUR PAWS International shines a light on Karl Ammann’s new documentary.
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00:00The Icon
00:02Tiger Skeleton
00:04You can buy Tiger related products
00:06He recommended beads
00:08Some circular beads
00:10And then I
00:12Tiger bones
00:14The price was 4 RMB
00:16per gram
00:18And all this is on WeChat now?
00:20All this is on WeChat
00:26Yeah, don't talk
00:30The Icon
00:32Tiger Skeleton
00:38There's a lot of people who have gotten into this business
00:40Because a lot of money can be made
00:42So even people which used to be
00:44in the drug or arms business
00:46now have branched out
00:48and added the wildlife trafficking
00:50business onto it because
00:52there is now big money in it
01:00The Icon
01:08I don't think he has any claws
01:12No, he has no claws
01:14Where are your claws?
01:16Have they pulled them?
01:30The Icon
01:42We talked about
01:44the price of $50,000
01:46for an adult tiger
01:48A tiger is an adult in about 3 years
01:50So it
01:52can be a very fast return
01:54on investment
01:56The demand seems to be there
01:58The demand seems to be growing
02:00So various players have gone into this business
02:02because of this profitability
02:28This way?
02:30Your leg?
02:46The zoos obviously
02:48exhibit tigers for the public
02:50which they've already done
02:52but now they breed them more intensively
02:54They're expanding the tiger exhibits
02:56They're creating essentially
02:58their own tiger farm section
03:00The tigers disappear out the back door
03:02and they
03:04improve their
03:06profits by
03:08joining this side of the trade
03:10rather than just being a zoo for visitors
03:20These are two different
03:22types of wires
03:24These are made from bones
03:26and these are made with
03:28the Chinese medicine ingredient
03:30This is better for health
03:32Yeah, but bone is very good
03:34But we can
03:36There's no place here where we can see
03:38where it's made
03:40She said it's made inside the park
03:42Inside the park
03:54This bone is different from this bone
03:56but it's both tiger
03:58Also tiger
04:00Here
04:02Like this one
04:04Inside the bigger one
04:06But why is it red and why is this yellow?
04:08I still don't understand
04:10This one is red
04:12This one is yellow
04:14This one is red
04:16This one is yellow
04:18This one is red
04:20This one is yellow
04:22You sure?
04:24This red color is normal red
04:26Normal red like this
04:28I showed a photo
04:30So the bones are still taken when the tiger is asleep
04:34They put some medicine
04:36They kill the tiger
04:38No, no, no, medicine
04:40and they sleep
04:42and some people they cut this
04:44and some people
04:46They take all the bones
04:48It's that constant strive for higher status
04:50for new products
04:52and the dealers know it
04:54They know their clients
04:56They know how they respond to this
04:58So they play into all this
05:00So that's how it happens
05:02and that's what really
05:04was surprising to me
05:06and was really in some way shocking
05:08that it had gone that far
05:20With that price
05:22any wild tiger
05:24has little hope
05:26That means
05:28if any hunter or any villagers
05:30hears about a wild tiger
05:32in one area
05:34they are aware of these price levels
05:36of the tigers which come out
05:38of the farms
05:40So they know if they can poach
05:42a wild tiger
05:44that potentially they might not get
05:4650 times the price
05:48Potentially they might not get
05:5050,000 dollars but they can
05:52earn a part of that by getting
05:54that tiger to market somehow
05:56So in some ways
05:58it actually encourages the further
06:00poaching of the last wild tigers