10 April 2020



As the world reels under coronavirus, criminal wildlife* traders continue to cash in on the crisis – including touting tiger bone “glue” to maintain health during the pandemic.

EIA’s investigators have already exposed illegal wildlife traders operating online and promoting fake cures containing rhino horn and other parts and products of endangered species  to treat the virus (aka COVID-19).

And in a new gruesome discovery, they found one trader recommending the use of tiger products as a way of generally staying healthy during the pandemic.

This Vietnamese trader is offering his homemade tiger bone “glue” via his social media account, complete with images and harrowing video footage of a tiger being butchered and the bones being boiled down

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