There are tens of thousands of legally killed bears in the US and Canada every year.
Many of their valuable parts go to waste because of stupid laws that do not allow them to be sold.
Wouldn’t allowing trade in legally taken bear part reduce the number or need to take bears illegally.
But no we say no matter how the bear was taken one can not sell these parts. So we encourage the illegal trading of bear parts.
With modern DNR testing it would be simple to track the legal from illegal.
You’re right. In China they got bear ranches and drug factories located nearby. As I recall one Chinese bear rancher launched an IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. However I forget the name of the company since I read about the story 2 years ago.