Wildlife group raises alarm over Asia’s bear trade

21 August 2014
The Nation
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At least 2,800 bears in Asia were traded for their parts over the past decade, according to a report issued Thursday by an anti-wildlife trafficking group. The figure was arrived at after analysing nearly 700 bear-related seizures, and it likely represents a fraction of the overall number of bears affected by the trade, said the Traffic report. …

The bear-related seizures in the study occurred in Cambodia, 190; China, 145; Vietnam, 102; Russia, 59; Malaysia, 38; Thailand, 29; Laos, 29; and India, 23, the report added.

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