The high demand for alternative traditional medicines has escalated poaching activities, thereby threatening other animal species – even th...
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The high demand for alternative traditional medicines has escalated poaching activities, thereby threatening other animal species – even though there is no factual evidence of the success of such treatments.
Rhinoceros
In the 1990s, China removed the animal from its list of ingredients approved for manufacturing medicines – rhino horn was supposed to relieve fevers and lower blood pressure, though any such effect was discredited by science. That changed recently – after rumours in Vietnam that rhino horn had cured a VIP of terminal liver cancer.
In the 1990s, China removed the animal from its list of ingredients approved for manufacturing medicines – rhino horn was supposed to relieve fevers and lower blood pressure, though any such effect was discredited by science. That changed recently – after rumours in Vietnam that rhino horn had cured a VIP of terminal liver cancer.
Water
Buffalo
Purebred wild water buffaloes may already have disappeared from the world, scientists acknowledge. In places like Cambodia it is considered an alternative to rhino horn in the treatment of fever and convulsions. And the water buffalo has already been eliminated from swaths of Laos, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Purebred wild water buffaloes may already have disappeared from the world, scientists acknowledge. In places like Cambodia it is considered an alternative to rhino horn in the treatment of fever and convulsions. And the water buffalo has already been eliminated from swaths of Laos, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Chinese
Alligator
This small, freshwater crocodilian species now numbers fewer than 200 in the wild, mainly in the Anhui province of China, along the lower Yangtze River. Alligator meat is promoted as a way to cure the common cold and cancer prevention – and its organs are believed to posses medicinal properties.
This small, freshwater crocodilian species now numbers fewer than 200 in the wild, mainly in the Anhui province of China, along the lower Yangtze River. Alligator meat is promoted as a way to cure the common cold and cancer prevention – and its organs are believed to posses medicinal properties.
Asian
Elephant
The animals are killed for their meat, hide, tusks and other body parts. In Myanmar, small pieces of elephant foot are turned into a paste to treat hernias. A bigger concern, though, is loss of the Asian elephant’s natural habitat and increasing conflict between the animals and the growing human population.
The animals are killed for their meat, hide, tusks and other body parts. In Myanmar, small pieces of elephant foot are turned into a paste to treat hernias. A bigger concern, though, is loss of the Asian elephant’s natural habitat and increasing conflict between the animals and the growing human population.
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