the trade.
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I give herewith a concise schedule of specific cruelty in
Cruelty during handling
a) Cages generally too small; thrown about during handling without ragard for the sufferings of the animal inside.
b) Birds trussed up with wire, or with wire through the cere and the lower mandible to hold the bill together.
c) Animale, such as civets, damaged in capture, e.g. broken legs from use of gin-traps; injuries never treated; monitege with damaged hands or tails, probably through being caught in a caje-doer.
a) No food or water during transit, which may take several days, or in the shop (in most cases).
e) Natural enemies placed in view of each f) Animals prodded with sticks, iron baru, fierce the, and partssk
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g) Leopard cats and other potentially vicious animals swung by the tail on transfer from one cage to another.
h) Young pangolins, which cannot be sold, ripped off their dams and thrown avay.
2. Cruelty during killing/eating
a) Pangolins have the scales ripped off while they are still alive.
b) anakes are, skinned alive.
c) civeta are probably killed by scalding.
d) birds, such as Quail, have the feathers and skin ripped off; they are still alive when the process starts.
e) monkeys' brains eaten from the still living animal (rare nowadays).
1) civets and snakes have certain glands cut out before the killing process.
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Conservation dangers
a) large numbers of birds of prey involved, Bay 10,000+ a year.
b) Giant Chinese Salamander (an endangered species on Schedule I of the new IUON convention) is regularly available in the market.
c)-4000 Chinese pangoline (on Schedule lf of ..e Convention) were importad in the financial, ponr 1972-73.
d) skins of tigers, leopards, clouded leonards readily available at all times » e) apart from birds of prey, many other imported species feed largely on rodents, and the trade is therefore creating the danger of a rodent plague bị
removing their natural predators.
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f), note that China is ở Ticially very conscious of the need for conservation of her wildlife.
Once again, many thanks for all your help; eventually get this trade stopped.
I hope between us we shall
Yours sincerely,
Michar
Michael Webster.