<story><title>Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46027702</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qubax</author><text>&amp;gt; Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their &amp;quot;scientific research&amp;quot; whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice.&lt;p&gt;The whales they research aren&amp;#x27;t endangered. Also, other nations and people hunt whales.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Similar loopholes will be found here, for example: if i capture a rhino and send it to a farm for 1 week, is it now a animal that we can do &amp;quot;research&amp;quot; on? What about 1 month?&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a possibility. But more likely, it&amp;#x27;ll create more tiger&amp;#x2F;rhino &amp;quot;farms&amp;quot;. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is debatable just like trophy hunting.&lt;p&gt;Also, the threat to tigers and rhinos aren&amp;#x27;t poachers. It&amp;#x27;s loss of habitat due to human population growth. Where humans live in numbers, it&amp;#x27;s hard to have tigers and rhinos around because they can easily kill humans. It&amp;#x27;s why most tigers and rhinos in the world today are in zoos or wildlife enclosures.</text></item><item><author>calgoo</author><text>Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their &amp;quot;scientific research&amp;quot; whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice. Similar loopholes will be found here, for example: if i capture a rhino and send it to a farm for 1 week, is it now a animal that we can do &amp;quot;research&amp;quot; on? What about 1 month?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josefresco</author><text>&amp;quot;Also, other nations and people hunt whales.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;A grand total of ...two. And not at the scale of the Japanese.  Iceland even exports whale meat to the Japanese because they don&amp;#x27;t eat enough of it.  To top it off, Japan has to subsidize the &amp;quot;industry&amp;quot; (quotes used because Japan claims it&amp;#x27;s for research)  because it&amp;#x27;s unprofitable.&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newscientist.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;mg21729043-000-taxpayers-money-keeps-japans-whaling-fleet-afloat&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newscientist.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;mg21729043-000-taxpayer...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ifaw.org&amp;#x2F;united-states&amp;#x2F;our-work&amp;#x2F;whales&amp;#x2F;which-countries-are-still-whaling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ifaw.org&amp;#x2F;united-states&amp;#x2F;our-work&amp;#x2F;whales&amp;#x2F;which-cou...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;earth&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;20151203-why-do-some-countries-still-hunt-whales&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;earth&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;20151203-why-do-some-countrie...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46027702</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qubax</author><text>&amp;gt; Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their &amp;quot;scientific research&amp;quot; whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice.&lt;p&gt;The whales they research aren&amp;#x27;t endangered. Also, other nations and people hunt whales.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Similar loopholes will be found here, for example: if i capture a rhino and send it to a farm for 1 week, is it now a animal that we can do &amp;quot;research&amp;quot; on? What about 1 month?&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a possibility. But more likely, it&amp;#x27;ll create more tiger&amp;#x2F;rhino &amp;quot;farms&amp;quot;. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is debatable just like trophy hunting.&lt;p&gt;Also, the threat to tigers and rhinos aren&amp;#x27;t poachers. It&amp;#x27;s loss of habitat due to human population growth. Where humans live in numbers, it&amp;#x27;s hard to have tigers and rhinos around because they can easily kill humans. It&amp;#x27;s why most tigers and rhinos in the world today are in zoos or wildlife enclosures.</text></item><item><author>calgoo</author><text>Well, we can see how well the Japanese are doing with their &amp;quot;scientific research&amp;quot; whale killing, which is really bad as they are using it as a excuse to continue the practice. Similar loopholes will be found here, for example: if i capture a rhino and send it to a farm for 1 week, is it now a animal that we can do &amp;quot;research&amp;quot; on? What about 1 month?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>&amp;gt; Also, the threat to tigers and rhinos aren&amp;#x27;t poachers.&lt;p&gt;Actually that&amp;#x27;s a big threat, sorry to burst your bubble, they&amp;#x27;re threatened by multiple different human factors.</text></comment>