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in a market in Myanmar vendors display
wares you won’t find at your local
market rows of bear paws and
gallbladders big cat teeth and one of
the most expensive items a dismembered
tiger penis Carl Aman is a swiss born
conservation activist and photographer
by trade through his photographs and
website he spent the bulk of his career
shedding light on issues such as the
illegal trade in animal meat in Africa
recently he traveled to mullah a town in
Myanmar formerly Burma along the border
with China even after nearly 20 years of
documenting the worldwide animal trade
nothing could have prepared him for what
he found there this is probably the
worst example I’ve seen anywhere else in
terms of live animals in terms of meat
Bazin too much today but I’ve seen a lot
more many illegally traded species will
end up in traditional Chinese medicines
the use of such medicines is said to
date back thousands of years and has
played a major role in the depletion of
species like tigers rhinos and Asian
bears and the demand for them shows no
signs of slowing down
globally the trade in wildlife is a
multi-billion dollar business and it’s
booming but nowhere else in the world is
it booming more than in Asia
experts say China is the premier
consumer in the illegal wildlife market
while some of the animals body parts
will end up as souvenirs most will be
used to make Chinese medicines or will
be eaten in exotic animal restaurants
conservation groups like the World
Wildlife Fund know the threat to
wildlife all too well the thing is it’s
this large scale industrial extraction
of wildlife it’s almost like wildlife
mining anything that can be captured
anything that can be traded is being
sucked out of these countries and it’s
going to these consumer markets mom
lives close proximity to China makes it
an ideal trading place for wild animals
tourists easily cross the border into
Myanmar filling up on their grisly finds
but the time spent at a bear bile farm
outside of Mong la left the deepest
impression on among the bile milked
through a permanent catheter placed in
the bare stomach is taken from Asian
black bears
it’s then used in Chinese medicine this
is this bear bile farm in Hmong land
it’s really about the worst animal
welfare scenario I have ever encountered
I mean this is not the question of
survival of some hunters it’s a question
of really commercial business trying to
make a fast buck all while called bears
so no excuse as far as a Chinese are
concerned you know what’s even worse
this time is the fact that they’re now
interrupted heads against the cages a
lot of them have their heads chopped off
from disrupting these bears and many
other wildlife species found in the
markets are protected from traffic
through sightings or the Convention on
International trade of endangered
species both China and Myanmar are
signers of the Convention yet many of
their citizens show flagrant disregard
for the agreement and there’s been
little enforcement by the respective
governments along the border more bears
are kept in tiny cages awaiting the day
when they will be killed for meat or
died due to sickness the illegal
wildlife trade is said to be worth
billions of US dollars each year in
Southeast Asia alone for threatened
species the wildlife trade is a massive
problem many species like tigers
mountain gorillas and rhinos are simply
disappearing illegal wildlife trade is
having a major impact upon species in
Asia wildlife is being taken from its
home in the forest transported very
quickly to consumer markets and being
consumed at an incredible rate there are
no checks and balances and controls in
place in many places to stop this we are
really concerned that we’re going to see
some empty forests for the future there
may be forests left but having no
wildlife left
although the Myanmar and Chinese
government’s have taken some steps in
the past to protect species captured for
the wildlife trade without greater
pressure from the international
community
some experts remain in doubt as to how
much more these governments will do to
remedy the problem
[Music]
in a market in Myanmar vendors display
wares you won’t find at your local
market rows of bear paws and
gallbladders big cat teeth and one of
the most expensive items a dismembered
tiger penis Carl Aman is a swiss born
conservation activist and photographer
by trade through his photographs and
website he spent the bulk of his career
shedding light on issues such as the
illegal trade in animal meat in Africa
recently he traveled to mullah a town in
Myanmar formerly Burma along the border
with China even after nearly 20 years of
documenting the worldwide animal trade
nothing could have prepared him for what
he found there this is probably the
worst example I’ve seen anywhere else in
terms of live animals in terms of meat
Bazin too much today but I’ve seen a lot
more many illegally traded species will
end up in traditional Chinese medicines
the use of such medicines is said to
date back thousands of years and has
played a major role in the depletion of
species like tigers rhinos and Asian
bears and the demand for them shows no
signs of slowing down
globally the trade in wildlife is a
multi-billion dollar business and it’s
booming but nowhere else in the world is
it booming more than in Asia
experts say China is the premier
consumer in the illegal wildlife market
while some of the animals body parts
will end up as souvenirs most will be
used to make Chinese medicines or will
be eaten in exotic animal restaurants
conservation groups like the World
Wildlife Fund know the threat to
wildlife all too well the thing is it’s
this large scale industrial extraction
of wildlife it’s almost like wildlife
mining anything that can be captured
anything that can be traded is being
sucked out of these countries and it’s
going to these consumer markets mom
lives close proximity to China makes it
an ideal trading place for wild animals
tourists easily cross the border into
Myanmar filling up on their grisly finds
but the time spent at a bear bile farm
outside of Mong la left the deepest
impression on among the bile milked
through a permanent catheter placed in
the bare stomach is taken from Asian
black bears
it’s then used in Chinese medicine this
is this bear bile farm in Hmong land
it’s really about the worst animal
welfare scenario I have ever encountered
I mean this is not the question of
survival of some hunters it’s a question
of really commercial business trying to
make a fast buck all while called bears
so no excuse as far as a Chinese are
concerned you know what’s even worse
this time is the fact that they’re now
interrupted heads against the cages a
lot of them have their heads chopped off
from disrupting these bears and many
other wildlife species found in the
markets are protected from traffic
through sightings or the Convention on
International trade of endangered
species both China and Myanmar are
signers of the Convention yet many of
their citizens show flagrant disregard
for the agreement and there’s been
little enforcement by the respective
governments along the border more bears
are kept in tiny cages awaiting the day
when they will be killed for meat or
died due to sickness the illegal
wildlife trade is said to be worth
billions of US dollars each year in
Southeast Asia alone for threatened
species the wildlife trade is a massive
problem many species like tigers
mountain gorillas and rhinos are simply
disappearing illegal wildlife trade is
having a major impact upon species in
Asia wildlife is being taken from its
home in the forest transported very
quickly to consumer markets and being
consumed at an incredible rate there are
no checks and balances and controls in
place in many places to stop this we are
really concerned that we’re going to see
some empty forests for the future there
may be forests left but having no
wildlife left
although the Myanmar and Chinese
government’s have taken some steps in
the past to protect species captured for
the wildlife trade without greater
pressure from the international
community
some experts remain in doubt as to how
much more these governments will do to
remedy the problem
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