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He went to prison for killing a deputy U.S. marshal and developed a friendship with a future American president who freed him a few years later.

Mainland people have been shocked to learn that two men from southern China were trying to sell fake tiger bones because medicines and other products containing the big cat remains were banned more than 30 years ago.

These images show the bones of 27 lions slaughtered to be sold to the Far East for use in medicines or to be made into trinkets. South African police swooped on a house after a tip-off that the 7,000 bones had been specially dried ready to be smuggled abroad. The remains, made up of both lions and lionesses, are worth £4,500 each on the black market and are normally spirited out of the country on cargo flights. Tory Peer Lord Ashcroft has long campaigned against the sickening trade and his in-depth investigations have shown over 3,000 farms in South Africa are involved in the trade.

I mean, it's a convenient argument and we get it time and time again from the apologists or the exploiters of wildlife, but it's never worked. whenever you have any kind of legal trade, whether it's tiger bone in china or ivory in china, it's going to mask or allow for laundering of the illegal trade. so you're essentially providing a conduit for the illegal product, the poached animal, to get to the marketplace that wouldn't be there if it was just illegal across the board. >> eia's hidden cameras caught a vivid illustration of the gray area that now exists for tiger skin dealers. >> the whol...

Impressive. >> the wealth in china is increasing, so as a status symbol to be able to acquire products that include tiger bone, tiger bone wine, for example, elevates your status in the community. >> while there are just over 2,000 wild tigers left in india, three times as many are locked up in chinese tiger farms. a london group called the environmental investigation agency shot this undercover video. >> there are two in china that have more than a thousand tigers each. it's like farming tigers. >> see, while wild tiger parts are technically illegal in china, they do allow the trade of captiv...