Tiger and wild cat trade from Myanmar to China growing (BBC)
By Navin Singh Khadka
Environment reporter, BBC World Service
The trade in tigers and other wild cat parts from Myanmar into China has grown in recent years, a new study based on two decades of survey data suggests.
It reports a surge mainly in Mong La, a Burmese town bordering China, where shops selling such products have more than trebled in the past eight years.
Tiger parts were found in 80 percent of the surveys, the study says, representing at least 200 tigers.
The most common parts were from clouded leopards, numbering some 480 animals.
The findings, published in the journal Biological Conservation, reinforce past claims that the town was emerging as a major wildlife market in the region for products from as far away as Africa.
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