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
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