Asian Zoos

I've just read a BBC article on the web regarding the spread of Tiger farms in China it seems there are 10,000 Tigers in farms and just 3,000 in the wild. Combine this with the article in National Geographic (Jan10) about the Malaysian world-wide kingpin of illegal wildlife trade and an simple BBC story takes on a sinister look.
Apparently it costs about $5000pa to raise a Tiger and just $1 for the bullet to shoot a wild Tiger, and there are no checks that will show the difference between Tiger bits sold from farmed Tigers and wild Tigers so, these zoos can easily act as fronts for poaching. If this all seems like a storm in a tea cup think again, the world-wide trade in illegal wildlife is worth more than the world-wide illegal drug trade. Plus the penalties for wildlife trading are trivial.
With China's prosperity raising rapidly, the Chinese obsession with stupid ancient  remedies is likely to kill-off our remaining wild-life. And how ridiculous are these beliefs; a Tiger is a powerful animal therefore if I eat its penis I will become virile or a Rhino's horn sticks up therefore if I eat powdered Rhino horn my dick will stick up.
Grow up.