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  • The number of Asian elephants is nosediving at an unprecedented level.

  • An elephant conservation group has revealed how Chinese skin traders sell processed Asian

  • elephant skin for traditional medicine and jewelery.

  • Choi Si-young has the report.

  • A growing number of Asian elephants are being slaughtered for their skin as well as their

  • tusks.

  • British-based conservation charity Elephant Family has published a report highlighting

  • how individual traders in China skin elephants for human medicine.

  • They dry skin and grind it into powder to use as an ingredient in traditional medicine

  • products, which they claim cure stomach problems..

  • The traders also mix the skin with elephant fat to make a cream to treat skin infections.

  • And the elephant skin is used for other products too, like pendants, or beads for necklaces

  • and bracelets.

  • The Chinese traders sell the items through social media, labelling them in Chinese and

  • pricing them using Chinese currency.

  • In 2016, the conservation group reported its discoveries to the 17th meeting of the Conference

  • of Parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna

  • and Flora in Johannesburg, South Africa.

  • Elephant Family's recommendations were accepted, but it says more action is needed to stop

  • the trade in products made from animals on the verge of extinction.

  • Choi Si-young, Arirang News

The number of Asian elephants is nosediving at an unprecedented level.

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瀕臨滅絕的亞洲象 (Asian elephants in danger of extinction)

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    Amy.Lin 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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