Monday, March 11, 2013

Visiting experts take a tour in Bangkok’s China Town in search of Shark fins

This week in Bangkok, governments from around the world are gathering to discuss regulating the trade in 5 species of shark and manta rays that would impose limits on what can be traded internationally for these threatened species. In a search of shark fins and manta ray parts, a group of visiting experts take a tour in Bangkok’s China Town. Finding shark fins here is not difficult, they are sold in both restaurants and traditional Asian medicine shops.