{"id":625969,"date":"2025-12-11T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:15:17","slug":"tiger-teeth-dried-seahorses-and-shark-fins-are-being-sold-illegally-on-facebook-bbc-finds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625969\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger teeth, dried seahorses and shark fins are being sold illegally on Facebook, BBC finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Endangered species, including tiger body parts, shark fins and pangolin scales, are being offered for sale on Facebook, BBC News has found.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One Chinese user posted videos of a tiger in a cage that was for sale as well as pictures of tiger bones and teeth, while another included two live tiger cubs in a box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An image showed a tiger head and bones for sale piled up on scales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A seller told the BBC his products &#8220;can be shipped to the UK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said a 10cm-long tooth would cost 2,000 Chines yuan (about \u00a3213) and that he could sell me tiger bones for 3,600 yuan per kilo (about \u00a3380).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another seller, who was offering shark fins, claimed to ship from the US to the UK and charged $50 per kilo (about \u00a337).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sale of endangered species such as tigers and pangolin is illegal in the UK and CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, closely regulates international trade in species under threat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The voluntary agreement, signed by more than 180 countries and other bodies, only allows the trade if it is both legal and sustainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Endangered species, including tiger body parts, shark fins and pangolin scales, are being offered for sale on Facebook,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-625969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115700178839357516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}