1.   A policeman in the crowd seemed equally uninterested in the illegal trade in tiger parts that was going on under his nose.

2.   But while the number of tigers continued to plunge, with many poached to feed the market for tiger parts elsewhere in Asia, wolf populations soared.

3.   More important than habitat destruction and conflicts with poor farmers, though, is the fact that a wide range of tiger parts are highly prized in Chinese medicine.

4.   Poaching is spurred by growing international demand for tiger parts for use in traditional Asian medicines.

5.   A key danger for the species is the Asian practice of using tiger parts to make medicine, which encourages poaching and smuggling.

6.   Apart from the skins, smuggled tiger body parts are used in Chinese traditional medicines.

7.   Demand for tiger parts from practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine as well as deforestation from economic development are threatening the Asian tiger with extinction.

8.   Environmental groups around the world have accumulated evidence from experts that tiger parts have no medicinal effect.

9.   Increasing the supply of tiger parts, Chuvit says, is the best way to stifle a massive illegal international trade in the endangered cats.

10.   Indians protest sale of ivory, tiger parts to Japan.