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Chinese medicine societies reject use of tiger bones ahead of CITES conference

12 March, 2010 - 16:38

The World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies has urged its memebrs not to use parts from endangered wildlifeDoha, Qatar, 12 March 2010 – WWF and TRAFFIC International welcome a World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS) statement urging its members not to use tiger bone or any other parts from endangered wildlife.

The statement was made at a symposium on Friday in Beijing and notes that some of the claimed medicinal benefits of tiger bone have no basis. The use of tiger bones was removed from the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) pharmacopeia in 1993, when China first introduced a domestic ban on tiger trade.

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