



China has announced it will legalise domestic trade in antique tiger bone and rhino horn - reversing a 25-year-old ban.





The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced their "profound concern" over the changes in the law, which would allow bone and horn products to be traded and used from captive bred animals.





Margaret Kinnaird, WWF Wildlife Practice Leader said: “It is deeply concerning that China has reversed its 25 year old tiger bone and rhino horn ban, allowing a trade that will have devastating consequences globally.





“Trade in tiger bone and rhino horn was banned in 1993. The resumption of a legal market for these products is an enormous setback to efforts to protect tigers and rhinos in the wild.



