Fashion forces Tibetans to shop for animal skin!

Evidence of Tibet's growing economy is easy to spot these days. Just take a walk down Barkhor Street in Lhasa's main shopping district. Here, in the Tibetan capital, deals are being struck left and right — from carpets and prayer wheels to exotic fruits and plastic shoes. For both first time visitors and Tibetans alike, it is obvious that business is booming. Unfortunately, the boom includes a growing trend in the wildlife trade.


Concern is increasing over the role of the Tibetan market in the trade of tiger skins and the skins of other Asian big cats, with many animals poached every year throughout the Himalayan region to meet demand.


Although there are no accurate estimates of the world tiger population, numbers are believed to have fallen by about 95 per cent since the turn of the last century – down from around 100,000 to the present estimate of between 5,000 and 7,000.


Throughout their range, tigers and other Asian big cats such as leopards and snow leopards are threatened by poaching and trade, as well as habitat destruction, loss of prey, and conflict with humans. Trade investigations, seizure reports, and other anecdotal information all point to China as a major destination for skins and other parts of the animals. But local trade is also a significant part of the problem.

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Fur coats widely popular from the winter of 2004,and that is the hot item for those stars and celebrities attending important occasions. What do you think of it?a kind of fashion and can be  ignore?or cruel and unnecessary  at all?

Replying to [Elaine Dai]:I don't like it. we need not satisfy ourselves by killing animals.

Replying to [Elaine Dai]:
There are many Tibetans and Mongols gathering and selling furs of wild-cats animal around every entrance of Caton Fair,every year.And many foreign gusts are interested and some even buys.To be the truth,the furs are fake,that is why the ethnics are not seized by police.haha...

Replying to [sourcingforyou]:I agree with you . we should like the animals as like ourselves.

we should wear the botanic garments, like cotton, linen and so on. i think everyone should know that: these type garments is very comfortable and fashion. such as: jeans, leisure garments.

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