Since HerbalGram's 2010 expose on the usage of endangered animals in cultural healing systems and the botanicals that can replace tiger bone wines and bear bile soups,1 some nonprofit organizations and a few countries' governments have made progress toward realizing the end of this heinous situation. But the outlook for most involved species, unfortunately, remains bleak and uncertain, as apparent in the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) December 2012 announcement that the illegal trade of wildlife has become the "fourth largest illegal global trade, after narcotics, counterfeiting, and human trafficking.
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