The tiger part was the only one that appealed to him; he decided the other two were wholly her own imaginings.

Almost immediately tigers became similar to a profitable cash crop at a time when there was huge demand for tiger parts for Traditional Chinese medicine.

The trade is driven by booming markets for ancient Chinese medicines and potions made from tiger parts.

An extensive market survey of tiger parts in Taiwan was completed in March 1993.

You know why they use tiger parts in medicine?

But perhaps the biggest myth is that tiger parts are useful to anyone but tigers.

Like in other Asian nations, Balinese people are fond of wearing tiger parts as jewelry for status or spiritual reasons, such as power and protection.

There is evidence that tiger parts are smuggled out of Indonesia.

But while the number of tigers continued to plunge, with many poached to feed the market for tiger parts elsewhere in Asia, wolf populations soared.

A policeman in the crowd seemed equally uninterested in the illegal trade in tiger parts that was going on under his nose.