Blood of the Tiger: China's Cat Farms - J.A. Mills

China is well known for its import of wild elephant ivory that fuels Africa's poaching crisis, but there is a quieter crisis caused by the tiger's extremely endangered status. Since there are so few of the cats left in the wild, the Chinese government has sanctioned them to be farm-raised in the country. Wildlife investigator and author J.A. Mills says that today's tiger farms are buoyed by wealthy Chinese consuming them as luxury items. Mills is optimistic that China's younger generations will reject the trade, as they don't want to be blamed for the extinction of tigers, elephants and rhinos. But she says that the United States has a captive tiger problem as well, which Chinese officials often cite when Americans demand that they control their market for animal parts.