China Seeks to Export Rare Tigers, Alligators
BEIJING — China wants to export Manchurian tigers and Chinese alligators because they are no longer considered endangered species, according to news reports Tuesday.
At a meeting next month of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, China will ask that it be allowed to export the animals, the official New China News Agency reported. China’s breeding of the tigers and alligators has been so successful that they “have virtually been written off the list of China’s endangered species,†the news agency said.
Both animals are valued for use in medicine and paleontology research.
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