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Greed also comes into play. Although only two companies are authorized to produce the drug in Brazil, several underground laboratories reportedly sell it to people without a prescription. Health authorities shut down one illicit operation last year, after a TV-news crew showed how easy it was to buy the pills...
...imports of Taiwan's wildlife products, including snakeskin shoes and lizard handbags. The value of such imports runs about $25 million a year -- a tiny part of America's $25 billion annual trade with Taiwan. But if the sanctions do not spur the country to curb its illicit dealing in endangered species, the trade restrictions could be broadened. And environmentalists will consider any penalties a major victory. Last summer the Administration declared that Norway had violated U.S. law by hunting minke whales, but then failed to follow through with sanctions...
...Trade in Endangered Species, which is meeting in Geneva this week. These biannual sessions usually come and go without attracting much attention, but the plight of the tiger has put a spotlight on the delegates this time around. Last September cites warned China and Taiwan, two countries where the illicit trade in tiger and rhino parts is prevalent, to take steps to shut down their black markets or face possible trade sanctions. Both nations claim to have curbed the illegal commerce, but environmentalists have gathered evidence to the contrary. Now everyone who is worried about wildlife focuses on one question...
...jackals and other animals in a grotesque procession by cart and truck that leads ultimately to a series of tenements along a narrow, filthy alley in Delhi's Sadar Bazaar. In one cluster of squalid apartments, the TRAFFIC sting operation discovered more than a dozen families engaged in the illicit wildlife trade. There the once magnificent animals are skinned, their prized parts dried and packaged, and their bones cleaned and bleached. The skins travel west, often ending up in the homes of wealthy Arabs, while the bones make their way to the east, frequently on the backs of Tibetans...
...London-based Environmental Investigation Agency called on nations to impose sanctions against Taiwan for failing to halt illicit trade in endangered species. EIA investigators offered evidence of the open sale of tiger parts, including skins, and a host of other banned animal products. Since then, illegal wares have disappeared from display shelves, but subsequent investigations by several environmental groups suggest that potions made from tigers, rhinos and other endangered species are still readily available. As recently as this February, an undercover probe sponsored by Earth Trust in four Taiwanese cities found that 13 of 21 pharmacies visited offered tiger-bone...