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Nowell, K.; Xu, L.
Lifting China's tiger trade ban would be a catastrophe for conservation
2007 Cat News (46): 28-29
China was formerly the world's leading consumer of tiger products, primarily tiger bone medicines. In the early 1990s, over 200 companies were manufacturing some type of tiger bone product, and it is likely that the primary source of supply was wild tigers poached in other range states. Around this time, the Government of China invested in the world's first "tiger farm" - a breeding center in Heilongjiang which aimed to raise tigers commercially for their parts. However, as international alarm grew over the decline of the tiger, in 1993 China banned domestic trade in tiger parts and products, and did not allow the tiger farm to use its tigers for commercial purposes (other than tourism).
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