1998-11-07
Toronto Sun                        

by Michael Clement

 

A west-coast wildlife activist alleges he purchased three bottles containing parts of endangered species, being sold illegally in a store in Toronto�s Chinatown yesterday�

 

Marr asked reporters to accompany him to the Po Chi Tong Chinese pharmacy on Dundas St. W. yesterday where he purchased the three bottles. The bottles of pills purportedly contained bear gall bladder secretion, possibly from the endangered Asiatic Black bear, secretions from the musk gland of the endangered Musk Deer, and tiger bone, possibly from the endangered Bengal or Siberian Tiger, Marr said.

 

�Internationally, endangered species are totally forbidden to be traded, alive or dead, in whole or part,� he said, adding that in June 1996 Ottawa enacted laws �forbidding the sale of anything containing endangered species parts.�

 

�The point of this exercise is to prove that the law is not being effectively enforced.��

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