[FormerLurker]

Tigers bones? In your dream. Two brothers were sentenced 10 years in prison for selling a tiger skin which had been in their family for generations.

From Chinese Medicine: Making No Bones About It

For this reason, the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco is joining with the World Wild Fund for Nature in a worldwide education campaign targeting the traditional Chinese medical community. The aim of the campaign is to educate the community on the need to end the use of tiger bone, and of acceptable substitutes. The campaign intends to recruit respected leaders in the community to get the message across. The use of tiger bone has been specifically targeted as there are very few tigers left in the wild and the appetite for tiger bone remedies is considered one of the greatest threats to the remaining population.

[Lake]

I have told you China has already prohibited the use or sale of anything from a tiger. Just a few months ago a circus troupe was busted by police after the owner tried to sell the carcass of a tiger that died of desease. A timber worker was attacked and killed by a siberian tiger in Heilongjiang province while the forest troopers were unable to rescue him because the law didn't say the troopers are allowed to shoot the tiger with their AK47s in self-defense. The family members of the victum are now asking for the government compensation, but the government says they have done everything that the law allows them to do and what they have not done is not permitted by law.