The Far East is responsible for huge losses of tigers (elephants, bears, sharks and rhinos, too) and «breeding programs» have to be curtailed when they are obviously simply
selling tiger parts.
Many are
sold as food, many are slaughtered and
sold as
parts for «medicinal» purposes and aphrodisiacs, and many are huge, high - stakes status symbols for the wealthy elite — such as
tigers, monkeys and Komodo dragons.»