They’re illegally killing bears in America, too—and then they ship the parts they want to China.
Unbearable...
That has got to be bad news for any species, finding out one of your organs is a traditional medicine for the most populous ethnicity on the planet. Several years ago I read an article where poachers were getting $1500 for a gall bladder out of a black bear.
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.