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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 whole of the world is trying t...

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...

Among the many bits of hindu mythology there's one story about the god shiva who roamed the forest naked. legend has it that he once wandered into a community of saints and their wive. to teach him a lesson the jealous men placed a tiger pit on one of the god's paths. one day shiva fell in, there were howls of pain and then shiva came out wearing a tiger skin. impressive. but it's interesting that in some aspects of this ancient faith that a tiger is not worshiped but worn or ridden. swamis would meditate atop tiger skins, but recent generations woke up to the crisis and by large tiger parts a...

Among the many bits of hindu mythology there's one story about the god shiva who roamed the forest naked. legend has it that he once wandered into a community of saints and their wive. to teach him a lesson the jealous men placed a tiger pit on one of the god's paths. one day shiva fell in, there were howls of pain and then shiva came out wearing a tiger skin. impressive. but it's interesting that in some aspects o thf ancient faith that a tiger is not worshiped but worn or ridden. swamis would meditate atop tiger skins, but recent generations woke up to the crisis and by large tiger parts are...