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Pressure the Chinese government to crack down on their animal black market, including the sale of ivory.

Created by P.N. on August 28, 2013

Many species are, thanks to years of greedy poaching, on the brink of extinction. About 40,000 Asian elephants remain today, but unless action is taken immediately, we may run that river dry. The South Chinese tiger is the most critically endangered of its genus, and possibly was made extinct in the wild in 1996. Tiger remains sell for about $70,000 on the Chinese black market, and the gastric juices of the "bile bear" are sold for $200,000 a pound (http://www.havocscope.com/black-market-prices/endangered-animals/). Together, we can end this.

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