With millions regularly skinned, more than half in the world could be wiped out the next 5 years. FMTNews
BEIJING: China’s demand for donkey skins to make a traditional medicine could wipe out more than half the world’s donkey population in the next five years, researchers said Thursday.
China’s domestic donkey population has collapsed by 76% since 1992, and the country imports most of the donkey skins it uses, mainly from traders in South America, Africa and Asia.The donkey skin trade has resulted in “suffering on an enormous and unacceptable scale”, the group’s chief executive Mike Baker said in a statement.
Researchers warned the largely unregulated supply chain that has sprung up to meet rapidly expanding demand could put ejiao consumers in danger while contributing to the spread of disease.
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