Quackery and superstition: species pay the cost
March 25, 2018 by Mariëtte Le Roux
A pinch of powdered chimpanzee bone, some gecko saliva, a dash of vulture brain.
These are not the ingredients of a fairytale witches' brew, but some of the prized substances helping drive the multi-billion dollar illegal trade in animal parts touted to cure anything from a hangover or asthma, to cancer and AIDS.
Along with better-known products such as rhino horn, pangolin scales, and tiger bone, dealers do a brisk trade in some more obscure ones too—dried seahorse, sloth claws, manta ray gills, and macaque embryos.
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