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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: Singapore: Tiger parts being sold Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:59 am | |
| JEWELLERS and antique dealers here are openly selling jewellery and amulets made from tiger claws, skin and teeth, an animal welfare group said yesterday.
The Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres), which investigated 134 jewellery or antique shops between December and last month, found 59 selling body parts of the highly endangered big cat.
And of the 59, only seven knew of the ban on trade in tiger ornaments; they produced the objects from under the counter, or from a safe, in front of undercover Acres investigators.
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