From America to Asia, from North to South, the illegal trafficking of animals, flowers. The consumer market is the private collectors, research labs, shops for animals, zoos, circuses and even healers of Asia. It is the third largest business in smuggling after drugs and weapons. Traffickers combine ingenuity with inhumanity in the methods of disguise of luggage / animal. Most experts uncover trafficking in animal agrees that the best strategy is not conscious buyers and sellers (as this trade is extremely lucrative for them).

Some animals at risk of extinction:

Chimpanzee
blackbird
Mongolia Horse
Birds in general
Elephant African
Reptiles
Gorilla
Rhinoceros
Insects Marine
Turtle
African Lion
Tiger
Papagaio
Tucano
Panda




There are today in the world, around 7,500 tigers, 60% of them are in Indian territory, divided in 21 reserves. India has been the more parents who are dedicated to preservation, but their efforts have been severely threatened by traffickers linked to the rich market tigre: sell your bones (famous in Chinese medicine), their skin, their meat and even their eyes. The Chinese healers believe that the dust of their bones cure rheumatism and ensures longevity, pills made eye end with seizures, the penis brings virility (a bowl of soup of the body of the tiger can cost U.S. $ 320 in Thailand). Your skin can get to $ 15,000 U.S. in the Arab market. Besides the traffic, the increase in population that the dispute with hunting tigers, destroys their habitat and natural ultimately invests against themselves, are their biggest threat. The Tigers always had fascination over men: the records back to 6000 years ago, where drawings of tigers were found near the Amur River in Russia. According to archaeologists, the inhabitants of the region as their revered ancestors and gods. In Hindu mythology the tiger is the vehicle of Goddess Durga, the Patriarch of China Chang Tao-ling. In the Caspian region, they extinguished in 1970, on the island of Java in 1980 and in Bali in 1940. India is now the place where the battle for survival of the tigers will be won or lost. The parents have a culture in which people genuinely respect nature, but its population growth is huge and threatening. Tigers and men coexisted for thousands of years in this century the challenge is launched.