The panda pelt is the panda’s skin and which people would sell them as a coat or other material goods. The website Animal Port has stated this about poaching pandas, “They are poached for their skin, which has a great value in the international market. The soft skin of Pandas is used for making bags, and is sold for thousands of dollars.” People will pay top dollar for their skin, and because panda’s skin are so rare its even more money. People have sold panda pelts for about $80,000. The rate of poaching of pandas has gone down due to restricted laws and the pandas are much more protected with these laws. If someone gets caught poaching a panda they will get about 10 years in prison. Pandas are very important on this earth because they help with out in the bamboo forest, they will roam around and spread seeds and facilitating growth of vegetation. Tigers are in comparison for poachers hunting them to the pandas, for their fur and mainly for their body parts because of this their population has gone down drastically. The body parts are sold on the black market for very high price and a lot of people want it because they posses capabilities to heal human illness and dysfunctions if it’s used in medicine. The tiger’s fur is also sold at a high price in the black market, and in certain countries they make them into coats and blankets. From the website World Wildlife Fund (WWF), they explained how tigers have been hunted and treated. This is what they stated, “For over 1,000 years, tigers have been hunted as status symbols, decorative items such as wall and floor coverings, as souvenirs and curios, and for use in traditional Asian medicine.” The website is letting people know the reasons why these endangered animals are being hunted and the outcome of their body parts. Tigers are an important animal on this earth because they are the top predator in a food chain and they keep the ecosystem going in certain places in Asia, without tigers the ecosystem will be off balance. They will keep the population of herbivores in balance and keeps them from over populating and then getting in the way of human life. So taking away tigers will affect not only animal’s life, but for human’s life as well. Poaching of all animals, not certain endangered species is going to get out of control if people don’t step in to help out. If people make laws for all animals against poaching like what they did for the pandas then poaching will be under control. This would create a more
The panda pelt is the panda’s skin and which people would sell them as a coat or other material goods. The website Animal Port has stated this about poaching pandas, “They are poached for their skin, which has a great value in the international market. The soft skin of Pandas is used for making bags, and is sold for thousands of dollars.” People will pay top dollar for their skin, and because panda’s skin are so rare its even more money. People have sold panda pelts for about $80,000. The rate of poaching of pandas has gone down due to restricted laws and the pandas are much more protected with these laws. If someone gets caught poaching a panda they will get about 10 years in prison. Pandas are very important on this earth because they help with out in the bamboo forest, they will roam around and spread seeds and facilitating growth of vegetation. Tigers are in comparison for poachers hunting them to the pandas, for their fur and mainly for their body parts because of this their population has gone down drastically. The body parts are sold on the black market for very high price and a lot of people want it because they posses capabilities to heal human illness and dysfunctions if it’s used in medicine. The tiger’s fur is also sold at a high price in the black market, and in certain countries they make them into coats and blankets. From the website World Wildlife Fund (WWF), they explained how tigers have been hunted and treated. This is what they stated, “For over 1,000 years, tigers have been hunted as status symbols, decorative items such as wall and floor coverings, as souvenirs and curios, and for use in traditional Asian medicine.” The website is letting people know the reasons why these endangered animals are being hunted and the outcome of their body parts. Tigers are an important animal on this earth because they are the top predator in a food chain and they keep the ecosystem going in certain places in Asia, without tigers the ecosystem will be off balance. They will keep the population of herbivores in balance and keeps them from over populating and then getting in the way of human life. So taking away tigers will affect not only animal’s life, but for human’s life as well. Poaching of all animals, not certain endangered species is going to get out of control if people don’t step in to help out. If people make laws for all animals against poaching like what they did for the pandas then poaching will be under control. This would create a more